Obliged Quotes

420 quotes by 293 authors

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. — Johann Sebastian Bach
I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged… — Emmanuelle Beart
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That… — Albert Camus
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything… — Maya Angelou
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are… — Henry Ward Beecher
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom… — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft
If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep… — Sun Tzu
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.... — Thomas Traherne
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.... — Andre Gide
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of… — William Penn
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I… — Stonewall Jackson
Even good people are obliged to deceive. — Greg LeMond
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon

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