For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it. — Virginia Cary Hudson Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St.… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if… — Edward VII Copy Share Image
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
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