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Obliged Quotes

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Philippe Starck
Genius, Obliged

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Naomi Wolf
Self Esteem, Editors, Obliged
Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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

Taiye Selasi
World, Release, Obliged
"Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Baron de Montesquieu
May, Wander, Obliged
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

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

Edouard Manet
Country, Charm, Obliged

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

Thomas Merton
Best Love, Love One Another, Obliged
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.178, Shambhala Publications

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

Dalton Trumbo
Advantages And Disadvantages, Disadvantages, Obliged
"Fictional character: Marcus Licinius Crassus". "Spartacus", 1960.

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Toni Morrison
Obliged
"Home". Book by Toni Morrison, May 8, 2012.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Alexander Pope
Flattery, Obliged, Flatterer
Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.265

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.

Andre Gide
Truth Is, Knows, Obliged

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

Daniel Dennett
Rude, Politeness, Obliged

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Jean de la Bruyere
Duty, Grain, Obliged

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

P. G. Wodehouse
Attitude, Would Be, Obliged
P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.152, The Floating Press

Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Feels, Behave, Obliged
"Critical Consensus: Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum Discuss Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. January 6, 2012.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

Jack Vance
Knows, Obliged
Jack Vance (1965). “The Dragon Masters”, p.48, Spatterlight Press

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

Beatrix Potter
Pudding, Obliged
Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Patrick Rothfuss
Mouths, Feels, Obliged
Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.235, Hachette UK

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes
Stories, Failing, Obliged

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

Meryl Streep
Brain, Use, Obliged
Interview with Wendy Wasserstein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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

James Cash Penney
People, Giving, Obliged

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

David Toop
Deeper, Deeper Meaning, Obliged

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Isabel Paterson
Justify, Obliged
Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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

Roger L'Estrange
Ungrateful, Sour, Obliged

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

Michel de Montaigne
Obliged, Exceed, Bounds
Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Dark, Truth Is, Obliged
Mahatma Gandhi (1928). “Young India”

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