Quotes About Accountability

If only men would do what they should.

door, or I'll kick it in. I mean it. And guess whose allowance will pay for the repairs?" She could hear him stirring then, muttering curse words. "No swearing!" she snapped. "You do it!" "Not when I think you can

I believe in deeds, not words.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka? she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.

Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that! Flatten your fur, Weiryn, replied the badger. What makes you think I had a choice? The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so? I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag.

Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.

The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.

The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.

The aunties were big believers in you made your bed, you crash and burn in it.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

As Jean-Paul Sartre said, we are the sum total of our actions. What is in our hearts does not matter.

Behavioral trainers never talk about vices and depravity. Behaviorists are some of the most optimistic' teachers and trainers there are, because if a person or an animal isn't learning, a behaviorist is trained to examine what he is doing wrong, not what the person or animal is doing wrong. This means that behavioral teachers and trainers don't blame the student.

Campbell's Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.

This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.

Nothing comes without a price, so don't whine when the bill arrives.

Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.