#obligation

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#basic #failures #keep #made #makes

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#family #i #know #life #my life

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq. ↗

— Richard Shelby

#bring #cannot #cut #democracy #ensure

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation. ↗

— James Sinegal

#also #anyways #business #does #every

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted. ↗

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#obligation #respect #education

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#because #best #best interests #care #child

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. ↗

— Christian Bale

#deadline #giving #gone #i #i can

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#consciences #highest #human #human society #interest

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#capable #either #fear #feeling #heterosexuality

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. ↗

— Larry David

#add #although #army #because #classes