Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle… — Margaret Fuller
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I… — Lord Byron
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things… — Gertrude Stein
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was… — Shelby Foote
Jung first gave us the term â€˜shadowâ€™ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or… — Debbie Ford
Just as Freud couldnâ€™t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didnâ€™t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian. — Jonathan Rosenbaum
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one — Dalton Trumbo
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.… — Hannibal
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no… — Eugene Ionesco
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I… — Niccolo Machiavelli
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are… — Mark Helprin
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark. — Mahatma Gandhi
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely… — Lewis H. Lapham
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
What editors are obliged to appear to say that — Naomi Wolf

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