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“It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.”
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“When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”
Source : Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”
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“Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.”
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“Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.”
Source : Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013. 
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“I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.”
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“The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.”
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“It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,”
Source : "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art". Interview with Edward Helmore and Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.
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“I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.”
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“Art has an obligation to offend”
