Top 547 Obliged Quotes & Sayings

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

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

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

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

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

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.

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

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

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

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

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

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged to pretend. But, you're also obliged to not pretend." So you have access to both sides, if you will. It's never a pure binary thing, but you can pretend. If you have total agency as a performer, then both are at your disposal.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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

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

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

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

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

Inter are a huge club and so always obliged to win.

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

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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

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

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express.

But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

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

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

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

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

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.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

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

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

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Real Madrid are obliged to win always - this jersey makes it an obligation.

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

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.