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Many are traumatized and come with only the clothes on their backs, we are obliged to welcome them, and share with them what we have to eat. – Dimouya Souapebe	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court. – Roger Federer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Congress is obliged to use every constitutional check and balance we have to rein in President Obama's lawlessness, and that includes both our confirmation authority over nominees and the power of the purse. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We continue to buy stakes in Italian companies, but now we're careful to remain below the 2 percent threshold so that we're not obliged to disclose them. – Zhou Xiachuan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The government is obliged to take all lawful measures to nip acts of terrorism in the bud, and such measures ought to be supported by Kenyans of all walks of life, such moves, however, must pass constitutional and legal muster. – High Court	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is LIBERTY. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and .Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me ; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and 'pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their lucious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of ‘brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. “This, sir, is What I long for.” p. 155 ... On his return to Georgetown, he was asked by colonel Watson, why he looked so serious? I have cause, sir,” said he, “to look serious.” Watson What! has general Marion refused to treat?” No, sir.” “Well, then, has old Washington defeated sir Henery Clinton, and broke up our army ? No, sir, not that neither ; but worse.” “Ah! what can be worse?” Why, sir, I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water ; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!” It is said colonel Watson was not much obliged to him for this speech. But the young ofiicer was so struck with Marion’s sentiments, that he never rested until he threw up his commission, and retired from the service. ' p 156 – Francis Marion	added by anonymous 9 years ago
As a matter of international law, the U.S. is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice, the U.S. Attorney General is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible. – Ben Emmerson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. – Thomas Traherne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. – Heinrich Heine	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. – Paul De Gondi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. – Niccolo Machiavelli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. – James Boswell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. – Edouard Manet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable. – Paul De Gondi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. – David Assael	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. – Heinrich Heine	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Many are traumatized and come with only the clothes on their backs, we are obliged to welcome them, and share with them what we have to eat.

– Dimouya Souapebe

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.

– Roger Federer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Congress is obliged to use every constitutional check and balance we have to rein in President Obama's lawlessness, and that includes both our confirmation authority over nominees and the power of the purse.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We continue to buy stakes in Italian companies, but now we're careful to remain below the 2 percent threshold so that we're not obliged to disclose them.

– Zhou Xiachuan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The government is obliged to take all lawful measures to nip acts of terrorism in the bud, and such measures ought to be supported by Kenyans of all walks of life, such moves, however, must pass constitutional and legal muster.

– High Court

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is LIBERTY. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and .Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me ; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and 'pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their lucious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of ‘brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. “This, sir, is What I long for.” p. 155 ... On his return to Georgetown, he was asked by colonel Watson, why he looked so serious? I have cause, sir,” said he, “to look serious.” Watson What! has general Marion refused to treat?” No, sir.” “Well, then, has old Washington defeated sir Henery Clinton, and broke up our army ? No, sir, not that neither ; but worse.” “Ah! what can be worse?” Why, sir, I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water ; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!” It is said colonel Watson was not much obliged to him for this speech. But the young ofiicer was so struck with Marion’s sentiments, that he never rested until he threw up his commission, and retired from the service. ' p 156

– Francis Marion

added by anonymous
9 years ago

As a matter of international law, the U.S. is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice, the U.S. Attorney General is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible.

– Ben Emmerson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

– Thomas Traherne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.

– Heinrich Heine

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

– Eugène Delacroix

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

– Malcolm Muggeridge

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

– Thomas Carlyle

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

– Paul De Gondi