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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. -- Margaret Mitchell
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money. -- Don Simpson
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it. -- John Michael Greer
Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it. -- Thomas Gray
I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine. -- Peter Tosh
Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are. -- Robert Kirshner
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. -- Neil Gaiman
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world. -- Dale Jamieson
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths -- Moses Mendelssohn
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so. -- Francois Rabelais
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. -- Margaret Mitchell
Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is. -- Rajneesh
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person -- Albert Camus
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. -- Georg Cantor
It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share. -- Randy Cohen
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. -- Albert Camus
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective. -- Michael Eisner
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be. -- Rajneesh
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure. -- Arthur W. Pink
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing. -- Neil Gaiman
I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh. -- Michael Ian Black
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. -- Joseph Brodsky
If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk -- Assata Shakur
However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful. -- Ronald Fisher
True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays no obligation upon the saved one to complete it himself, or to make after payments of service for it. -- Lewis Sperry Chafer
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth. -- Milan Kundera
A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements. -- Jacques Barzun
I have been capable of some mischief in the past. I know what rebellion feels like. Everyone and everything is provided with a destiny, but there is no obligation whatsoever to fulfill it. Some just prefer to ignore the humming of their soul. -- E.A.A. Wilson
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. -- John Podhoretz
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. -- Seneca the Elder
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay -- E. B. White
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse. -- Lysander Spooner
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves. -- Jefferson Davis
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good. -- Gail Simone
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life. -- Jonathan Turley
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life. -- Edward Gibbon
No obligation to do the impossible is binding. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. -- Bob Ehrlich
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. -- Henry Paulson
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. -- Lee R. Raymond
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them. -- E. L. Doctorow
I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. -- Saxby Chambliss
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. -- Thomas Hobbes
The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. -- Ron Paul
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
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. -- Ron Paul
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. -- Colin Powell
You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation. -- Nicholas Kristof
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. -- Mark Wahlberg
If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign. -- Pope Benedict XVI
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. -- George Combe
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. -- Mahmoud Abbas
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts. -- Lysander Spooner
There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. -- Margaret Thatcher
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. -- Pierre Charron
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. -- Pope Pius XI
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself. -- Charles M. Blow
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. -- Truman Capote
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves. -- Edward Kennedy
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever. -- Douglas Adams
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. -- Philip James Bailey
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game. -- Woody Allen
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. -- James Anthony Froude
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. -- George Eliot
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government -- J. P. Morgan
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something. -- June Callwood
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Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. -- Saxby Chambliss
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail. -- Terry Pratchett
No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped. -- Martin Luther

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