Obligating Quotes

#1. I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.

Edith Hahn Beer

#2. The Air Corps ... does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating ... funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

George Brett

#3. Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

Damon Galgut

#4. A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

#5. I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

Mike Curb

#6. In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Heather Donahue

#7. Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Mordecai Richler

#8. Life is an orbit where light and darkness follow each other in a mercurial cycle.

Pramudith D. Rupasinghe

#9. Jack: Rose! You're so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You're so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why?
Rose: You jump, I jump, right?
Jack: Right.
Rose: Oh God! I couldn't go. I couldn't go, Jack.
Jack: It's all right. We'll think of something.
Rose: At least I'm with you.

James Cameron

#10. The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

Henry Ford

#11. I always keep my repertorial hat on.

Mark Leibovich

#12. Nothing can give you happiness except you and yourself.

Debasish Mridha