Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will… — Jacques Anquetil Copy Share Image
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill.… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of… — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin 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
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger 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
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves… — Isaac Barrow 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
Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who… — Origen Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image