No man is obliged to be what he might have been.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.
What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!
To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that applies to any painted surface. So if you're engaging in paintings, this is the language that one has to learn and is obliged to speak. I was very fortunate that I learned this language when I was a kid before I went to California, where I learned the language of attitude. Somehow the two things began to coexist.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.