Pastoral Resources

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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.

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.