“You forgot to love the people you are meant to protect.”— Anthony McCarten, Jorge Bergoglio/Pope Francis, Jonathan Pryce, imdb.com
“We have a dual obligation: to study the miraculous and to protect against the perilous.”— Damian Kindler, Dr. Helen Magnus, Amanda Tapping, imdb.com
“There is a kind of listening with half an ear that presumes already to know what the other person has to say. It is an impatient, inattentive listening, that despises the brother and is only waiting for a chance to speak and thus get rid of the other person. This is no fulfillment of our obligation,…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“5-year-old: I don't want to go to school anymore. Me: You have to. It's your job. 5: Then why don't I get paid?”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,…”— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”— Neil Gaiman, theguardian.com
“There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“There is a difference between 'committing to the right person while you're young' and 'settling for someone while you're young out of obligation or fear or both.'”— Brianna Wiest, bustle.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com