#oblige

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. ↗

— Henry Knox

#between #congress #essential #general #general good

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#cannot #find #illness #later #obliged

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#back #being #certain #control #customers

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#life #me #obliges #paint #something

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. ↗

— Origen

#even #field #foreign #go #many

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#aside #ballerina #being #build #craft

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#away #bothers #directors #haven #i

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread