Oblig'd Quotes

#1. When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

Julia Child

#4. The hillside before them blurred, as if a curtain of wind-blown sand rose before it. A churning wind roiled through this strange mist.

Steven Erikson

#5. Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Roberto Cavalli

#6. We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts

Ian McDonald

#7. The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Eloisa James

#9. A child's a plaything for an hour.

Mary Lamb

#10. Rape's a weapon of war. The women got over it.

Erika Johansen

#11. I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

Dane Cook

#12. Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Arnold Rothstein

#13. This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John's Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.

Brian D. McLaren