Obliged Quotes
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.
I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.
Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.
We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.