Obliged Quotes - Page 9

• No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Issues, Spheres, Moral

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Conscious, Turns

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Writing, Years

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• Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Giving, Publicity

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

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• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Ears, Way

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• We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

  Voltaire

  Age, Levels, Rise Above

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.61

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• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  John Locke

  Faith, Ideas, Judging

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

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• It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

  Carol Shields

  Learning, Records, Forget

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.111, Penguin

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• [Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual.

  Catherine Camus

  Obvious Things, Pathways, Want

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I hadn't performed or been in the public eye for about 16 years. When my husband passed away, I was obliged to go back to work to take care of our kids. I also wanted to do a record in memory of him. So we did Gone Again. During that process, I had to be photographed and had to go back to doing articles and interviews.

  Patti Smith

  Memories, Husband, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Years, Twenties, Social

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Writing, Order

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

  Horace Walpole

  Bad Company, Has Beens, Ifs

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4814, Delphi Classics

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• I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Quality

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.591, Ageless Reads

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• The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, Government, People

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• Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we have to tackle the root of the problem. I am pleased to note that you are honest people and admit that you are obliged to support the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Mean, Roots, People

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

  Zoë Heller

  Honesty, People, Departure

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• The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).

  Jason Mulgrew

  Jobs, Book, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.

  Sam Hamill

  Running, Country, Jobs

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Strong, Past, Humanity

  Source: variety.com

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• God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before, but it was not that common. And of course since it was a song that wasn't written by Irving Berlin until the 20th century (laughter), none of the 19th century presidents said God Bless America at the end of speeches, either. I think that the symbolism which suggests that everybody is religious and that even presidents who believe in church and state feel obliged to do this.

  Susan Jacoby

  Song, Religious, Laughter

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Identity, Routine, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

  Andrew Solomon

  Light, Suffering, Matter

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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