One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. — Annalena McAfee 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
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 should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors. — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be… — Henry Fielding 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
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about… — Umberto Eco 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
The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams 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
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
