Obliged Quotes

420 quotes by 288 authors

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged… — Washington Irving
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to… — Benjamin Franklin
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge… — James Boswell
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a… — Herbert Croly
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to… — Susan Sontag
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as… — Charles Perrault
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and… — St. Catherine of Siena
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I… — Katharine Drexel
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part… — Paulo Freire
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and… — Henry Walter Bates
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I… — Grover Cleveland
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market… — Vaclav Klaus
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all… — Pope Francis
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… — Oscar Romero

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