Obligations Quotes

295 Obligations quotes by 253 unique authors

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N.… — Condoleezza Rice
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them,… — Ben Stein
When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out… — Taylor Swift
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had… — Clarence Thomas
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. — Henry David Thoreau
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness… — Adam Weishaupt
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that… — Julian Baggini
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at… — John Irving
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… — Wallace Stegner
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand
Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those… — Paulo Coelho
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.… — Toni Morrison
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams — David McCullough
Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve… — Naomi Wolf
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers… — Albert Camus

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