Quotes About Responsibility

A heart's a heavy burden.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.

In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.

Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.

Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?" Alec: "...God, I think...

done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is the risk you agreed to take. There are always consequences." "Can I leave the baby with you?" she asked.

I haven't prescribed the birth control pill yet and I won't be starting today without getting approval from the man of the house.

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood," she said.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl

I told you this long ago, and it is still true. I am a man with but one heart to give, and it has been given to you. You must take great care with the knowledge of that.

John's explosion left Abigail in a quandary. Priding herself on being a good wife, she cheerfully accepted that her main role was to soothe the cares of her adored if sometimes baffling spouse. Being a wife required at least the appearance of submission. On the other hand, it would be cruel to abandon a husband altogether to his follies when it was so easy to correct him with a little tact.

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.

Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't enough, then in 2004, Rather turned around and did it again when he didn't confirm President George Bush's military records and broadcast a bogus story about President Bush." -- excerpt from "Love Thy Neighbor" ©2012. by Diane Moore

dianemoorewriter.com February 11, 2015 · From Love Thy Neighbor" On journalism and news purists as well as why I pursued print instead of TV journalism/news at the No. 1 journalism school in the country: news reporters are willing to take risks "so that people can base their lives on a foundation of truth not lies. That's why I do it -- to be the one responsible voice in the crowd." Page 105' "Love Thy Neighbor

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the sreet. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

My boyfriend, like a lot of men, takes great pride in his car. Honey, his car is detailed, waxed, and vacuumed weekly. On the other hand, my car looks like a really big purse.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.