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Quotes About Accountability

There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.
~ Iris Murdoch
We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.
~ Iris Murdoch
You say we don't know the consequences of actions. But we don't know the consequences of inactions either, and inactions are actions.
~ Iris Murdoch
She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.
~ Irvine Welsh
History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.
~ Irvine Welsh
Mâine dimineaÈ›-o s?-mi par? r?u, da', cum ar zice Sick Boy, dimineaÈ›a-È™i poart? singur? de grij?.
~ Irvine Welsh
When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing
~ Irvine Welsh
He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?
~ Irving Stone
You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.
~ Isaac Asimov
You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.
~ Isaac Asimov
the fact that Jander was Fastolfe's own creation does not give him the right to destroy it.
~ Isaac Asimov
You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
Mucho poder lleva consigo mucha responsabilidad, y si los robots tienen tres leyes para proteger a los hombres, ¿es demasiado pedir que los hombres cuenten con una o dos leyes para proteger a los robots?
~ Isaac Asimov
Atomhajókkal? – Hát mivel? Azt a három kereskedelmi hajót, amelyet az Å' térségükben elvesztettünk, nem légpuskával durrantották le.
~ Isaac Asimov
But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ez a maga dolga, nem? Mivégre tettem meg magát akkor köznevelésügyi és propagandaminiszternek? – Nyilván, hogy idÅ' elÅ'tt nyomorultul a sírba tegyen, amennyi segítséget kapok magától.
~ Isaac Asimov
That's not the proof I want.' 'You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
~ Isaac Asimov
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
~ Isabel Allende
Cathy le dijo que la tarea más importante en la vida era limpiar los propios actos, comprometerse totalmente con la realidad, poner toda la energía en el presente y hacerlo ahora, inmediatamente.
~ Isabel Allende
Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.
~ Isabel Allende
porque aprendí que uno es responsable de su dolor. —Eso no siempre es verdad.
~ Isabel Allende
No es personal, cada uno es responsable de sus sentimientos y la vida no es justa».
~ Isabel Allende