#obliged

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#american #assured #been #come #her

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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#cannot #find #illness #later #obliged

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#back #being #certain #control #customers

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

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#attack #endangered #lose #obliged #otherwise

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

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. ↗

— Caroline Nichols Churchill

#brutal #divine #drink #had #less