Obliged Quotations

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

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.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

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

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

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.

May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

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.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

When I wasn't documented, I remember the panic -- wondering if I could get a job. I felt obliged to help now.

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

The plan to lodge a censure motion against certain ministers will go ahead although they may have changed portfolios then. They are still obliged to clear themselves in the planned censure debate.

Let me be clear, the Commission's position is that Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies imposed by the Commission's March 2004 decision, nothing more, nothing less. We are not moving goal posts, we are not changing our demands.

second-guessing editors. They're obliged to be responsive to their individual communities, and I'm not the one who has to deal directly with reader blow-back.

Milosevic is now in their (Yugoslav authorities) custody, he is under their control, so they will be obliged to present the warrant to him with due diligence, without undue delay.

My father imposed me, obliged me to follow in the family business. Possibly because there was a strong idea that the boy in the family or one of the boys in the family had to follow the family into business.

I would be obliged to propose to the council serious consequences, including the suspension of voting rights.

If the Security Council decides to take decisions that are not within its competence, then Iran does not feel obliged to obey.

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

If it were to be obliged to offer versions both with and without Media Player, then that would mean we would probably have double the number of consumer PC configuration in our shops. Of course this is product that is built before it is sold.

He is not a vegetable. He is conscious. He understands what we say. He can shake, open and close his eyes and move his head. He cannot speak...all his body parts can move but without coordination. This is generally positive since doctors were worried that the left side of his body may be more affected than the right. So far that is not the case. He still has a tube in his throat for breathing. They tried to take it out but were obliged to put it back. He is fed through his nose.

I think it's important to let students to be involved because if you have big activities all the time people feel obliged to go but with smaller activities more people can enjoy them.

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.

Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies which were imposed in the commission's 2004 decision, nothing more nothing less. We are not moving the goalposts as has been suggested, we are not changing our demands.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

We are obliged to put an end to the spread of the cancer of terrorism,

We are now concentrating fully on Ireland and this will be a very important match. But on the other hand we should not try to score at any price because we are not obliged to win.

We are in no way interfering with the rights of candidates, but we are obliged to state that an attempt to take power by force is being prepared in the country under cover of the elections.

You have no right to criticize Russia for Chechnya, ... We are obliged to put an end to the spread of the cancer of terrorism.

To me, this is the most egregious aspect of the deal. We would be obliged to help India find fuel elsewhere after it tests nuclear weapons, after imposing sanctions due to our public law.

The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

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

We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

We conclude that learning improvement days are optional and are not necessarily a component of the basic education the state is obliged to provide to all children,

We have been obliged to partly cut off water in some districts, but I hope this is a temporary measure.

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

While I hope you will act responsibly and with reason on this issue, I feel obliged to tell you that your failure to do so would cause me to reevaluate my association with an organization that fails to recognize the role of women in our society. While I have, up to this point, respected your request that this issue not be a subject of discussion either with the public or with other members, I feel that continuing the status quo would cause me to make my views known to a broader audience -- if only to remove any doubt that I approve of the present policy.

While I can crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do

The president is obliged to talk to party leaders, in this case with the leader of the largest opposition party,

Failing that, I will be obliged to intervene -- if necessary, by imposing a tax on these exceptional profits.

We were obliged to keep ourselves on our guard against our own companions and fellow-travellers, men of a nation highly favored by the United States.

We just disagree with being denied a hearing on venue. We are obliged to try to get in front of the issue as quickly as we can so not to put things in more disarray than they already are.

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

There's no limit to how many times a player can ask a chair umpire to check out a mark but it doesn't mean the chair umpire is obliged to get out of the chair.

Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our friends that Israel should not be pushed into a situation where we see no other solution but to act unilaterally against Iran.

I've never said that before to a living soul, but I felt obliged to say it to you now,

The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn.

The size of this charge reflects both much weaker demand forecasted over the next 12 months as well as the costs for certain commitments that Cisco felt obliged to fulfill.

Sometimes clients come here and having paid for travelling and holiday, a doctor might feel obliged to go through with the operation, even if the person is not suited.

Queen Elizabeth liked Falstaff's character so much that she sent word that she'd like to see more of Falstaff. Shakespeare was one of the first to be obliged to resurrect a character.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

A few years ago this match would have been inconsequential but we now have clients in these markets and feel obliged to offer odds.

Speaking for myself I took office with reluctance, I will have it with pleasure, & while I am obliged to hold it my effort will be, as it has been, to do the thing that is right according to my lights.

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

That's malarkey, ... You are obliged to comment. That's your judgment we're looking at. ... We're looking for candor.

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

They're almost obliged to disclose something about linearity, and to the extent that it's a point or two below, they basically have to say that. That's pretty much what I expected.

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.

It's troubling that reporters are being asked to play so central a role, but even more troubling that reporters may be obliged to play the role of testifying against someone that they had promised confidentiality to,

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

Syria is obliged to abide by the terms of security council resolutions. They are clearly not co-operating and this is a matter of serious concern.

No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his

The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.