#obligation

As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#asked #association #beginning #board #chairman

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ↗

— William Feather

#evade #his #man #manifest #must

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#clear #completely #conditional #equip #forces

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#committed #cost #delivers #each #expended

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#big #call #me #moment #note

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#comprehensive #disputes #far-reaching #impossible #international

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#last #long #longer #obligation #power

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#came #doing #family #felt #i

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#comes #day #else #every #every day

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. ↗

— John Tillotson

#easy #good #ill #nothing #obligation