Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through… — Nelson Mandela
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw… — Jean de la Bruyere
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as… — E. M. Forster
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a… — William Hazlitt
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. — Benjamin Franklin
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects,… — Benjamin Franklin
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. — Catherine the Great
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. — Umberto Eco
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one… — Frantz Fanon
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. — Heinrich Heine
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. — Don Herold
I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society.… — Jermaine Jackson
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. — Thomas a Kempis
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always… — Tim Berners-Lee
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. — Annie Lennox
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There… — Samuel Lover
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,… — Henry Miller
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of… — Malcolm Muggeridge
When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it… — Mandy Patinkin

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