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,...