Obliged Quotes - Page 14

• She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Feelings, Miserable

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

  4 Copiar cita

• I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

  Jack Germond

  Atheist, Government, Adults

  10 Copiar cita

• We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Names, Vedas

  4 Copiar cita

• Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

  Federico Rafael

  Opposites, Velvet, Television

  4 Copiar cita

• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Book, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). "A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays".

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  14 Copiar cita

• I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Order, Knows, Can Do

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Tasks, Purpose, Abandon

  Ernst Mach (1959). "El análisis de las sensaciones: Y la Relación de lo Físico con lo Psíquico"

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

  Ellen Barkin

  Teacher, Acting, Levels

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

  Anatole France

  Women, Ugly, May

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.31, Anatole France

  11 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

  George Santayana

  War, Men, Blood

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Leisure, Can Do

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.12

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

  Austin O'Malley

  God, Clothes, Evening

  4 Copiar cita

• I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Violence, Renounce

  4 Copiar cita

• You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

  Baltasar Gracián

  War, Arrows, Use

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No quebranto la ley* hecha para los ladrones, cuando me despojo de mi propia propiedad - por lo tanto no estoy obligado a ajustarme a la ley hecha para los asesinos cuando me privo de mi propia vida.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicidio, Ley, Sinvergüenzas

  8 Copiar cita

• Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

  William Hazlitt

  Heaven, Care, Next

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los cuatro Evangelios coinciden en darnos la imagen de una personalidad muy definida. Uno se ve obligado a decir: "Aquí había un hombre. Esto no puede haber sido inventado.

  H. G. Wells

  Jesús, Hombres, Dar

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.153, Xist Publishing

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Un escritor escrupuloso en cada frase que escriba se preguntará. . . ¿Qué quiero decir? ¿Qué palabras lo expresarán?...Y probablemente se preguntará. . . ¿Podría decirlo más brevemente? Pero no está obligado a tomarse tantas molestias. Puede evitarlo simplemente abriendo la mente y dejando que las frases hechas se agolpen. Ellas construirán las frases por usted.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Mind, Trying

  4 Copiar cita

• Un festín continuo de elogios sólo puede obtenerse por mérito o por riqueza: muchos, por tanto, se ven obligados a contentarse con bocados sueltos, y recompensan la infrecuencia de su disfrute con excesos y desenfreno, cada vez que la fortuna les pone el banquete delante.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exceso, Mérito, Riqueza

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). "The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752", p.329

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los hombres se han visto obligados a hacerse una noción de lo que es la religión, mucho antes de que la ciencia de las religiones iniciara sus comparaciones metódicas.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

  9 Copiar cita

• Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

  Susan Griffin

  Female, Culture, Kind

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.168, Open Road Media

  15 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Queremos la libertad por la libertad, en y a través de circunstancias particulares. Y al querer así la libertad, descubrimos que depende enteramente de la libertad de los demás y que la libertad de los demás depende de la nuestra. Evidentemente, la libertad como definición del hombre no depende de los demás, pero en cuanto hay un compromiso, estoy obligado a querer la libertad de los demás al mismo tiempo que la mía. No puedo hacer de la libertad mi objetivo a menos que haga de la de los demás igualmente mi objetivo.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Commitment, Liberty, Doe

  "Existentialism Is a Humanism". Lecture, 1946.

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente