Quotes of: Oblige Keyword

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

Donna Lynn Hope

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

Donna Lynn Hope

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Jonathan Dimbleby

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Condoleezza Rice

Marcus Licinius Crassus: One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one.

Spartacus

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Chuck Feeney

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Emmanuelle Beart

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

Annie Lennox

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

John Bolton

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

Claire McCaskill

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Mandy Patinkin

To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion, but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection

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

The Beauty Myth

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Joyce Maynard

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Pietro Mascagni

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

Red Faber

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Tom G. Palmer

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Lou Holtz

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow