#obliged

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better #change #consideration #even #experienced

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#each #humanity #itself #live #most

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. ↗

— Origen

#even #field #foreign #go #many

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#cinderella #down #easily #fitted #foot

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#business #gentle #i #i am #kindly

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#attention #down #everything #less #more

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

#calls #drop #fulfill #i #i wonder