#oblige

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. ↗

— Richard Steele

#i #look #me #morality #oblige

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#being #disadvantages #like #obliged #occasionally

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

#am #black #conclusion #destiny #however

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.) ↗

— Tom Angleberger

#noblesse-oblige #humor

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

#fear #in my opinion #master #morally #obliged

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

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#everything #fear #hasten #i #laugh

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#as far as #case #far #join #lies

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #because #coffee #end #feel