Obliged Quotes

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

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

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

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.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

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.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!