Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State. — Moshe Dayan
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he… — Joshua Reynolds
In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to… — Vincent de Paul
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

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