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
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac 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
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter,… — Melville Fuller 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 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
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
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I hadn't performed or been in the public eye for about 16 years. When my husband passed away, I was obliged to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found… — Heinrich Heine 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
The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of… — Kate Millett 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
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
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
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of… — Marion Kirkland Reid Copy Share Image
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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