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420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to… — John Cage
If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action… — Emile Durkheim
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. — Toni Morrison
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary… — Edward Abbey
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other… — Benjamin Franklin
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus… — Thomas Carlyle
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God. — Austin O'Malley
I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether. — Leo Tolstoy
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. — Baltasar Gracian
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the… — Michel de Montaigne
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes… — William Hazlitt
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could… — H.G. Wells
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,… — Samuel Johnson
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… — George Santayana
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made… — Anatole France
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and… — Susan Sontag
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and… — Lewis Thomas
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is… — Sun Tzu
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under… — Wilhelm Ostwald

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