(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,...