Obliged Quotes

420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to… — Susan Sontag
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as… — Charles Perrault
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and… — St. Catherine of Siena
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I… — Katharine Drexel
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part… — Paulo Freire
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and… — Henry Walter Bates
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. — William Penn
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I… — Grover Cleveland
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market… — Vaclav Klaus
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all… — Pope Francis
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… — Oscar Romero
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 ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or… — Debbie Ford
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’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

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