Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Truth is stranger than fiction but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words sentences phrases the triple tension between the line of verse the syntax and the sentence.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors so I'm obliged to see them.