#oblige

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #oblige




When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.


Wilhelm Steinitz


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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.


John Sutter


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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.


Mark Twain


#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.


Caroline Nichols Churchill


#brutal #divine #drink #had #less

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.


Victoria Wood


#behave #ceremony #feel #normally #obliged

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.


Richard Ben-Veniste


#catastrophe #concern #current #current events #deal

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.


Len Wein


#another #chain #editor #expect #follow

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.


Baltasar Gracian


#helps #little #much #oblige #often

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.


Catherine the Great


#business #gentle #i #i am #kindly

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.


Marilyn Hacker


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