“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsHumansKindMeanChildrenSoulCareAbleRealizingAnimalResponsibilityGratitudeTake CareLoyaltyObligationCrueltyDependentNeglectBe KindHelplessBetter OffAnimal CrueltyKindness To AnimalsHuman CrueltyLove And Loyalty Author:James Herriot
“I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.” WorldBelieveImportantAmericaCulturePresidentWorryObligationDevalue Author:George W. Bush
“The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?” StatesPrayerTalkingMoralIslamBonesAlcoholObligationCommandIslamicCategoriesJudgedBansContentionDaily Prayer Author:Mustafa Akyol
“I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.” PeopleWorldBelieveStatesLastsAmericaI BelievePresidentUnitedUnited StatesSecurityMonthsCitizensActivityOrganizationAddThreatSevenHarmObligationDestroyingCompellingBentNational SecurityNeglectedAmerican CitizensSeven Months Author:John McCain
“Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.” FeelsTryingLyingPurposePayAliveMy FriendsObligationFuneral Author:Arnold Palmer
“Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.” Life IsOpportunityGreatnessCapableWorthyObligation Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.” IfsThinkingMenHardChoicesLove IsQualityBreakDoubtDangerGainsAdvantagePunishmentObligationLiarsLinksFearfulDreadGreedyRottenUngratefulFickleDeceiver Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.” IfsReturnObligationMeritInitiativeGreetingsManifold Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.” FeelsMeanI CanSidesPartyVoteBetrayalObligationBoth SidesModerates Author:Michael Totten
“The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.” ShouldChildrenCountryJobsAmericaLinesResponsibilityFrontsBalanceMen And WomenCommitmentBottomObligationTreatedOur CountryEmploymentSelflessReservesUniformsSpouseHonoredBottom LineMassachusettsServicemenArmed Services Author:Mitt Romney
“People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.” PeopleKnowsWellsRememberPromiseListsObligationCommitOpeningAppropriateAgreementKnow MeCalendarsLaptops Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.” IfsWantFeelsWellsI CanFeltSoundSingingLowsFlowJazzBottomTinyObligationJust OneOh WellLasersHuskies Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.” GovernmentCitizensObligationFinanceManageRevenueUnprecedentedProvinces Author:Rachel Notley
“Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.” TurnsSidesDutyHatredObligationHatred And Love Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.” IfsThinkingWayShouldWritingTryingI CanBookValuesIndividualTermMysteryPlanetsFineMountainMurderSpendingObligationInterpretationVillageScratchesWriting A BookAtrocitiesExposingRwandaMurder Mysteries Author:Colson Whitehead
“Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.” ConcernCrisisClimateObligationVariety Author:Al Gore
“Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.” WorldMeanShowsForceLove IsCreativeOur LivesTypeDeeperObligationDestructiveSentimentalHallmarkHumannessTypes Of Love Author:Chris Abani
“My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.” WayObligationReleaseFrankZappa Author:Gail Zappa
“My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.” FirstsHas BeensMadeCareArtistSongUnitedTakenFiveBrotherAlbumsObligationReach OutNoveltyWarner BrothersHula Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Another obligation that I have as a teacher is to make available to students a range of options and devices and approaches, rather than saying "well here's one way to do it and that's the only way that's good."” WayWellsTeacherStudentsApproachAvailableObligationOne WayRangeDevices Author:Leni Zumas
“It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.” FeelsKindNaturalObligationNatural Things Author:Faris Badwan
“When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high. At this stage, I get to pick and choose a little more. Not that there aren't some things that have to be done, but I get a little more control over my time.” PeopleWayLittlesDoneRunningCertainNumbersCompanyStagePicksWaveCustomersObligationCommandMy TimeEmployeeFlagsSchedules Author:Steve Ballmer
“We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.” HumansStillsSupportRightsExampleProgramTestsInternationalHuman RightsTerrorismObligationIranViolationSanctionsMissilesViolation Of Human Rights Author:Barack Obama
“We are not perfect. But we have doubtlessly fulfilled our obligations to the EU to a greater degree than the EU has its obligations to Italy, when it comes to the relocation or repatriation of refugees that are in our country. Italy does its homework better than the rest of Europe. Instead of the 160,000 migrants that were to be distributed across Europe, we are currently at 300.” DoeCountryPerfectGreaterDegreesEuropeObligationOur CountryFulfilledRefugeeHomeworkNot PerfectMigrants Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.” NeedsHelpingCareBuddhismEthicsAriseObligationRecognitionMortalityExposedSentient Beings Author:George Pattison
“We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and pursuing a stable relationship with their neighbors. Instead, we've seen a lot of provocations and a flouting of international norms and obligations.” CommitmentInternationalNeighborObligationWelcomeStableNormNorth KoreaKoreanProvocationNorth KoreanPeninsulas Author:Josh Earnest
“I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it. It's not because I've gotten filthy rich off the hides of young skaters that I feel some sickening obligation to act on, and make myself look like I'm not that bad of a guy. It's because I actually care.” WantFeelsLooksCareYoungGuyRichObjectsObligationConsumptionI CareFilthySkaterBecause I CareFilthy Rich Author:Mike Vallely
“Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.” Obligation Author:Mike Vallely
“Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.” CircumstancesBenefitsCommitmentOrganizationMedicalObligationInstanceEmployeeShedRemorseHesitationPension Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.” MindPainPleasureReturnGratitudeBenefitsSpeciesRevengeObligationImpatientInferiorityRecompenseExacting Revenge Author:Samuel Johnson
“You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.” CertainStuffProductsTypeTradeCreditObligationSophisticatedLoan Author:Jamie Dimon
“After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.” ProblemPoliticalGroupsMinesGayLettersAngryAidsObligationMagazinesIronyProtestChaptersHarperDeath Of A FriendPolitical Groups Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.” KnowsI CanCan DoHealingDutyObligationAlcoholics Author:Malachy McCourt
“The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.” WantHardReasonWholeRiskTroubleSecurityFiguresStructureDebtObligationReason Why Author:Robert F. Engle
“Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.” LoveSelfEnoughHelpingCausesForgetLove IsPowerfulSituationEnemyPrinciplesAchieveSelf LoveFameFortuneObligationRulingHostility Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“We have a stewardship responsibility to keep ourselves healthy physically and emotionally. If we don't, we cannot carry out our obligations to God, to family, to our employer, or to others. With this in mind, we put limits on the extent to which we allow others to abuse us. Doing right will mean abuse part of the time; that goes with the turf. But inviting abuse or failing to deal with it is wrong.” IfsMindMeanDealsResponsibilityFailingHealthyLimitsAbuseObligationBitternessEmployersStewardshipInvitingDoing RightTurf Author:Richard Walters
“Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It's a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.” WorldShouldTryingLittlesMadeBitsMoralLittle BitDeserveObligationChanging The WorldMoral Obligation Author:Phil Libin
“It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.” ImportantFactsRightsDenyDuesNuclearObligationIranSpellsTreatiesProliferationProliferation Treaty Author:Thabo Mbeki
“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.” WayPersonsActorsSkinsIntentionObligationIronicInitialsPromotingRadar Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.” ShouldBelieveArtMadeDifferentReasonEnoughPurposeCoursesArt IsWork OutObligationMake SenseFar AwayPurpose Of Art Author:Eric Fischl
“I don't think this is a situation where you can say that Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power. It'd be one thing if Congress explicitly disavowed an exercise of the tax power. But given that it hasn't done so, it seems to me that it's - not only is it fair to read this as an exercise of the tax power, but this court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the tax power if it can be upheld on that basis.” IfsThinkingDoneSeemsGivenSituationOne ThingExerciseTaxesFairsBasesCourtCongressObligationAvoiding Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.” LastsSpeakFeltObligationDeanBrandoTycoons Author:Matt Bomer
“When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.” ThinkingWayEyeOpportunitySportsResponsibilityInformationMedicineEntertainmentObligationPublic EyeGood Information Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.” ThinkingIdeasComedyObligation Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.” EndsPurposeSocialResultsBiggerSlaveCommittedDebtObligationTunesBigger PictureSocial Obligation Author:Romany Malco
“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.” WantFeelsMindMotivationalWake UpPressureObligationChampion Author:Michael Jordan
“Until I see proof of this reincarnation or cloning, I'm gonna live up this life. That was kinda the path I took. But I fulfilled my obligations.” PathProofObligationThis LifeFulfilledReincarnationCloning Author:Daniel Tosh
“[Young people] can't do much with [student debt] other than try to figure out how to pay it down. They can't take jobs they want. They can't get the credit they would like to start a business. So we're going to refinance it, we're going move people into income-contingent repayment plans, we're going to have a date certain when their obligations end, and I'm not going to let the government harass kids.” PeopleWantTryingEndsGovernmentKidsJobsMovingYoungCertainPayPlansFiguresStudentsCreditDebtIncomeObligationRepaymentRefinance Author:Hillary Clinton