Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and… — Marquis de Sade
Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to… — Muqtada al Sadr
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — George Bernard Shaw
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In… — Lewis Thomas
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason,… — George Washington
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. — John Wanamaker
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working… — Len Wein
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. — John Irving
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,… — Julian Barnes
The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things… — Samuel Beckett
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this… — Victor Hugo
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night… — Lisa Kleypas
I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen… — Arthur Conan Doyle
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner

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