Obliged Quotes - Page 12

• I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, War, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.310, Рипол Классик

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

  Edouard Manet

  Country, Charm

  24 Copy quote

• What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Editors, Want

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Clever, Crazy, Work

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 97, 1799.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, United States

  25 Copy quote

• 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 they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.

  Milton Babbitt

  Believe, Home, People

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

  Daniel Dennett

  Rude, Politeness

  11 Copy quote

• On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

  William Bligh

  Morning, Anchors, Two

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Patience, Speech, Bears

  8 Copy quote

• Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Crush, Party, Voting

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.281

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

  Sojourner Truth

  Hearing, Sojourners, Birth

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty weoman I could not get a rhyme for roman And was obliged to call it weoman.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Love, Air, Pugs

  'Poems'

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 up linguistically in some way.

  John Ralston Saul

  Government, Victory, Dresses

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.536, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

  35 Copy quote

• 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 dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

  Shimon Peres

  Dream, Journey, Care

  148 Copy quote

• 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 interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Interesting, Literature

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

  Isabel Paterson

  Justify

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Values

  6 Copy quote

• 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 beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Friendly

  14 Copy quote

• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

  7 Copy quote

• The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta".

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Space, People, Feelings

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.70, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, People, Sensual

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

  Karl Marx

  Revenge, Class, Sight

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

  19 Copy quote

  Show source