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  • Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. -- Sojourner Truth
  • 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. -- William Penn
  • Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain
  • The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
  • I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. -- James Boswell
  • I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.' -- Patrick Chappatte
  • People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. -- John Wanamaker
  • One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. -- Dalton Trumbo
  • Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain
  • If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. -- Heinrich Heine
  • Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. -- Mark Twain
  • I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. -- Catherine the Great
  • 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. -- Thomas Traherne
  • An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei
  • Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. -- Peter Stuyvesant
  • 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. -- Martin Parr
  • He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. -- Charles Perrault
  • In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. -- Henry Miller
  • 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. -- Albert J. Nock
  • So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. -- Marquis de Sade
  • I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' -- Tony Abbott
  • During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. -- Maya Angelou
  • 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. -- Shereen El Feki
  • Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. -- George Washington
  • Even good people are obliged to deceive. -- Greg LeMond
  • Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily. -- Isabel Paterson
  • Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • What editors are obliged to appear to say that -- Naomi Wolf
  • I really feel obliged to go to this confounded luncheon. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. -- Alexander Pope
  • I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding -- Beatrix Potter
  • No man is obliged to be what he might have been. -- David Berlinski
  • As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. -- Harry Frankfurt
  • I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it. -- Meryl Streep
  • To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. -- Christo
  • You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any. -- Rachel Caine
  • We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual. -- Barbara Kruger
  • Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? -- Michel de Montaigne
  • The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there. -- Edouard Manet
  • You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. -- Toni Morrison
  • The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know. -- Jack Vance
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  • You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. -- Carl Sagan
  • The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do. -- Luke the Evangelist
  • Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. -- Roland Barthes
  • She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. -- Jane Austen
  • The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. -- Don Herold
  • We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come. -- Samuel Johnson
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  • No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. -- Philippe Starck
  • It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. -- James Cash Penney
  • Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine. -- Kathryn Hall
  • The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy. -- Martin Luther
  • At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow. -- Nicos Anastasiades
  • Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction -- Paulo Coelho
  • Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. -- Samuel Butler
  • No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. -- Thomas Piketty
  • A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. -- Samuel Johnson
  • We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another. -- Thomas Merton
  • Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. -- Anthony Collins
  • We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance. -- Taite Adams
  • One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one -- Dalton Trumbo
  • Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. -- Mary Douglas
  • Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
  • I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves. -- Red Faber
  • There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, -- Daniel Dennett
  • We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it. -- Voltaire
  • The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. -- John Irving
  • I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader. -- George Sarton
  • Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to. -- Thomas Otway
  • The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. -- Josh Billings
  • Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. -- Stephen Johnson Field
  • Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. -- Sonia Rykiel
  • I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. -- Richard Steele
  • I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me -- Richard Steele
  • Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life, -- James Davison Hunter
  • When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. -- Stephen Johnson Field
  • I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. -- Horace Walpole
  • Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. -- Taiye Selasi
  • You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ... -- Susan Sontag
  • The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do. -- David Toop
  • To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. -- Edmund Burke
  • I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. -- Charles Lamb
  • The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. -- Martin Amis
  • We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. -- Marcel Proust
  • What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women. -- Naomi Wolf
  • we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it. -- Virginia Cary Hudson
  • It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • 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. -- Mark Roberts
  • And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. -- Anna Quindlen
  • One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. -- Annalena McAfee
  • Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you. -- Robert Stacy McCain
  • Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. -- Samuel Beckett
  • He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer. -- Robert Boyle
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