1.
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
Philippe Starck
2.
What editors are obliged to appear to say that
Naomi Wolf
3.
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
4.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Baron de Montesquieu
5.
The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
Edouard Manet
6.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
Thomas Merton
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one
Dalton Trumbo
8.
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
Toni Morrison
9.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
10.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
Daniel Dennett
11.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
Jean de la Bruyere
13.
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
14.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
P. G. Wodehouse
15.
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
Beatrix Potter
16.
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Jack Vance
17.
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
Patrick Rothfuss
18.
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
Roland Barthes
19.
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
David Toop
20.
If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
Meryl Streep
21.
It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
James Cash Penney
23.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Horace Walpole
24.
I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.
Leo Tolstoy
25.
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
Harry Frankfurt
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Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
Roger L'Estrange
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In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.
Carl Sagan