You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn’t always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That’s your ultimate obligation.
I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn’t hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.
In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn’t even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.
My ultimate responsibility is to the folks that elected me here in the commonwealth, so I am acutely aware of that obligation and commitment.
For our part, the U.S. government has an obligation to aggressively pursue every opportunity to expand trade, boost the economy, and create well-paid jobs here at home.
Georgians understand obligation, love of family, and payment plans.
The society has an obligation to protect younger generation and prevent them from the use of tobacco products.
When I see something that I think isn’t right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.
If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
We do this on our free time and because we think it is fun. But we do not have an obligation to feed content to organizations that knowingly try to distort what we are doing and portray us as crooks.
The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.
First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.
You know that when you fight a guy like Georges, there are going to be a lot of demands on your time and you just have to be able to find a way to deal with it. The most important thing is, I can’t let my obligations to promote the fight interfere with my obligation to get ready to fight.
I’m thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It’s something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation to their children. You might marry someone who is already a parent. Or you might, as in my case, yearn to create a family and decide to adopt.
As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.
My only description for me is that there’s no throwaway people. That’s the creed that I live by. It doesn’t matter if I’m singing or not. That’s the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there’s an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don’t think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
At City, it’s our obligation to be fighting on all fronts for all trophies, and the Premier League is one of them.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I’m a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.
I’m bothered when people don’t understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.
My obligation is to the movie audiences.
The nation’s obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
If you don’t like a film or do a film out of obligation in a comfortable zone, it would be very painful, but when you do something with passion, interest, and belief in it, it excites you.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
I think when you’re working with a character that another writer is acting as – for lack of a better word – custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that ‘primary’ take.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It’s fun!
As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.
The novelist’s obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian’s. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.
There’s this really good line in ‘Women in Love’ where Ursula says, ‘I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.’ And actually I think that’s very common, it’s what a lot of people feel – that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.
It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn’t feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I’m going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
When you’re running a company, you have employees – lots of them – that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high.
I think you have an obligation to be honest.
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees – at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United’s attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
