"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."
- Marcel Proust
"Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there..."
- Bonnie Jo Campbell
"We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love."
- Cristiane Serruya
"Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People..."
- Jill Lepore
"Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations."
- Aesop
"Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 -"
- Munindra Misra
"It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly."
- Carol Anne Dobson
"As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to."
- K. Martin Beckner
"She cannot escape marriage; it is her sacred Hindu duty, just as giving her away in marriage was her father’s sacred Hindu duty. Like Indian Independence, marriage is her ultimate ‘Tryst with Destiny,..."
- Chandana Roy