I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they’re affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they’re just trying to get nominated for...

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.

We are doing all we can to fulfill this obligation regardless of the pressure and additional deadlines.

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

When I went to school – Pasadena Playhouse – we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you’re having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who’s as dry and exciting as...

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one...

Using nuclear technology is an obligation and a national demand; any going back in the nuclear field is the same as losing the country’s independence, which will have a very high price.

(Iran’s) obligation (to the IAEA) is to ensure inspections occur and that all of their programs are monitored, but not necessarily suspended.

We consider this our moral and ethical obligation.

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

People need to know what kind of economic conditions will ensue for their businesses. The BOJ has the obligation to explain policy clearly.

In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take that obligation very seriously.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer —...

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

The Road Runner divestiture is an obligation we always assumed we would face, and the decree proposes both a schedule and process that are fair and feasible.

Andy Griffith certainly didn’t need a gun. By his presence, he was a reminder that we all have an obligation to follow the law. In Mayberry, that certainly did the trick.

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom’s call,

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

We don’t consider it a triumph. We consider it our moral obligation.

While most countries in the region recognize their obligation to return confiscated property, there remains in some countries a lukewarm commitment to completing quickly the work at hand,

We certainly think it is better for us to be present around the world rather than not. I emphatically think it is good for us to be offering these services. Part of being present is...

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

In this life or the next, I hold you to your promise Mikhail Ivelitsch.

[I]f you don’t feel or look rich, you don’t necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of...

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It’s as if God sent it to me,’ she said, looking up at the sky, ‘and told me to love.’p. 265

I think he feels that obligation to come into camp in great shape next year.

I believe my obligation is to play the best players. If he’s one of the best, it’s my responsibility to put him out there. If he’s not, then I don’t have to.

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood’s caprice or passion,...

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn’t say I’m entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Voting is the right of every citizen. It’s a national obligation because the results of the election should reflect a truthful expression of all Palestinians.

When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don’t renege, you don’t sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other...

We decided we had an obligation to look into it.

It’s equally my obligation as a comedian to point out what is wrong with us and get us talking about our problems as it is pointing out what’s wrong (with) the way, for example, the...

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled...

He’s a free person. We have no moral obligation to keep him away from here. As far as we’re concerned, he’s a tourist.

I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state.’

It’s my obligation to be ready if I’m picked as the fourth [player]. Something happens and I have to be ready because I’ll have to then play doubles or something. … I have to be...

No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most. When two people come together and make the conscious decision to create a...

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

You’ve got three different parties here — GM, Delphi and the UAW — trying to figure out what GM’s obligation is, … GM could be on the hook for a lot of those UAW workers,...

has been reminded of its obligation to ensure only the voluntary movements of displaced persons.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

We are not obligated to like each other, but rather to love one another.

The county had a five-year parking variance to construct the garage. The county made a commitment to abide by the standards. At what point does the county live up to its obligation? We hear all...