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“You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.”

Feels Promise Obligation Trusting You

Author:Jonah Hill

“The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.”

Made Promise Obligation Administration Veteran Shameful Our Veterans

Author:Doc Hastings

“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.”

Values Nations Loses Land Balance Promise Obligation Budgets

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”

Heart Made Moments Justice Pleasure Blood Ready Promise Angry Mere Obligation Drunk Strings Bows Bent Wrath Arrows

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“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.”

People Knows Wells Remember Promise Lists Obligation Commit Opening Appropriate Agreement Know Me Calendars Laptops

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.”

“Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

Inspirational Promise Coaches Obligation American Football Delivering

Author:Lou Holtz

“The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time—made me feel human.”

Thinking Feels Humans Made Ends Would Be Together Promise Rain Partners Obligation Shy Anxious Joyful Impatient Truest

Author:Stephenie Meyer