Obliged Quotes
420 Obliged quotes by 288 unique authors
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No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
— Philippe Starck
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
— Samuel Johnson
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We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.
— Luke the Evangelist
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain…
— Heber C. Kimball
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something…
— Milton Babbitt
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The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good…
— James Cash Penney
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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
— James Cash Penney
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Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.
— Isabel Paterson
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as…
— E. M. Forster
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From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to…
— Shimon Peres
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If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances,…
— Carlo Petrini
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Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves…
— John Ralston Saul
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to…
— Albert Camus
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Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace…
— John Bunyan
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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings,…
— Edward VII
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I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the…
— Unknown Author
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To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God’s restorative purposes over all of life,
— James Davison Hunter
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It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
— Robert Purvis
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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who Wrote These Obliged Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 420 Obliged Quotes, led by these top contributors: