Quotes of Obligatory - somelinesforyou

“ Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. ”

- W. Edwards Deming

“ Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. ”

- Henry Hazlitt

“ The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. ”

- Bible

“ Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. ”

- George MacDonald

“ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there. ”

- Unknown

“ Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out. ”

- Jules Ormont

“ Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. ”

- George MacDonald

“ I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. ”

- Blum Ralph

“ A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ”

- Agnetha Faltskog

“ Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Strong words are required for weak principles. ”

- Doug Horton

“ If military action is required, our objective this time should be not to annoy Saddam Hussein, not to inconvenience Saddam Hussein, but to remove Saddam Hussein. ”

- Dan Quayle
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