Obligations Quotes

295 Obligations quotes by 253 unique authors

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
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when… — Saul Bellow
Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you… — Jennifer Weiner
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like… — Colum McCann
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out… — Nora Ephron
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes… — Jonathan Swift
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another… — Wallace Stegner
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What… — Nick Hornby
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years… — Adolf Hitler
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others. — Alain de Botton
Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are… — Judith McNaught
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is… — Wallace Stegner
Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. — Dennis Prager

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