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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
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.
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.
Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
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.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.
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.
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.
The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.
