Obligation Quotes - page 17

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon. (Dikembe Mutombo)
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service. View quote
Douglas Wilder
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. View quote
Drew Gilpin Faust
You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there. View quote
Dan Stevens
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. View quote
Elizabeth Edwards
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. View quote
Elliott Abrams
There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people. View quote
Eduardo Paes
When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. View quote
Gustav Heinemann
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. View quote
George Combe
Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. (H. Lee Scott, Jr.)
So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited. View quote
H. Lee Scott, Jr.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible. View quote
Jane Velez-Mitchell
The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place. View quote
John H. Sununu
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. View quote
John Podhoretz
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. View quote
John W. Snow
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. View quote
Jonathan Turley
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are. View quote
Julian McMahon
That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people. View quote
Kim Harrison
A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash. View quote
Kristen Wiig
My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors. (Bob Diamond)
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so. View quote
Bobby Rush
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. View quote
Don Simpson
But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there. View quote
Judge Mills Lane
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity. View quote
Martin Filler