Obliged Quotes
420 quotes by 288 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Obliged Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 420 Obliged Quotes, led by these top contributors: