During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before… — George Crook Copy Share Image
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
