#oblige

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #oblige




If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.


Ron Suskind


#greatest-generation #magnanimity #noblesse-oblige #education

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.


Robert Fulghum


#debt #noblesse-oblige #repay #stranger #money

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.


William Henry Ashley


#cords #empty #falls #had #long

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.


William Falconer


#endowed #feel #forgo #god #i

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.


Stephen J. Field


#closed #courts #go #judges #obliged

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.


Frantz Fanon


#am #black #conclusion #destiny #however

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.


Howard Carter


#being #crowded #large #made #objects

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.


Mark Twain


#consists #obliged #play #whatever #work

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