Quotes About Accountability

They'll pay for this. All of it. I promise. One day they'll pay.

Taking a life, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

The problem is, some people think they're above the law. There are plenty of good reasons why we have so much regulation.

Hé Colin... Ik geloof dat je weer eens slordig met je zaad bent omgesprongen.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Even though you can hide from the earth, heaven sees you act. AMISH PROVERB

Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

Motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today?

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Now here are three stages of wisdom: the unwise person blames other people for what are, in the end, her own judgments about things; the person who is making progress does not blame others, but only herself; the wise person does not blame even herself.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

There are two types of lazy bosses. One is so lazy that they make you do not only your own work but theirs too. Worse, they lie to you about it, unloading all responsibility for their actions. The other is so lazy that not only do they not do their own work but they can't even be bothered to provide you work to do. These bosses lie as well, but only to themselves, passively. The first is the hardest boss to work for, the second the easiest.

Do you ever think 'how did I end up here?' Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?

I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the world is a little bit to blame for everything.

You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versaillles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don't get away with anything.

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.)

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.