In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications. Alexander Alekhine Russian Celebrity More Alexander Alekhine Quotes 0
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. Johannes Sebastian Bach Composer More Johannes Sebastian Bach Quotes 0
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. Isaac Barrow English Mathematician More Isaac Barrow Quotes 0
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 English Scientist More Howard Carter Quotes 0
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 Scottish Poet More William Falconer Quotes 0
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 French Psychologist More Frantz Fanon Quotes 0
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. Galileo Galilei Italian Scientist More Galileo Galilei Quotes 0
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Marilyn Hacker American Poet More Marilyn Hacker Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Marilyn Hacker Quotes 0
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. Thomas Kempis German Writer More Thomas Kempis Quotes 0
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. Ernst Mach Austrian Physicist More Ernst Mach Quotes 0
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Albert J. Nock American Philosopher More Albert J. Nock Quotes 0
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. Origen Theologian More Origen Quotes 0
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Wilhelm Ostwald German Scientist More Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes 0
When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work. Mandy Patinkin American Actor More Mandy Patinkin Quotes 0
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. Charles Perrault French Author More Charles Perrault Quotes 0
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. Marquis de Sade French Novelist More Marquis de Sade Quotes 0
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. Koichi Tanaka Japanese Scientist More Koichi Tanaka Quotes 0
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 American Lawyer More Richard Ben-Veniste Quotes 0
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 American Cartoonist More Len Wein Quotes 0
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. Pierre Beaumarchais French Inventor More Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes 0
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 More Caroline Nichols Churchill Quotes 0
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. John Biddle English Clergyman More John Biddle Quotes 0
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. Anthony Collins English Philosopher More Anthony Collins Quotes 0
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton English Writer More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes 0