Quotes About Responsibility

The dead don't bury the dead. Only the living can do that.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it. Do something great with your life.

He used to say that plants are like children." "Really? How so?" "They come from a seed, sprout limbs, grow taller, stronger—but you have to nourish them." "Do

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

errand girl, lawyer, mommy, and to pacify a grown man's

Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père

John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. "To whom much is given, much is expected.

Que dit Keanu Reeves dans Portrait craché d'une famille modèle, déjà ? « Il vous faut un permis pour acheter un chien, il vous en faut un pour conduire une voiture. Nom de Dieu, même pour attraper un poisson, il vous faut un permis ! »

You just do your job, Tracy, and the chips will fall where they fall. You get me?

really have to go if we're going to keep that reservation." Tracy handed her overnight bag

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.

People are forgiving, Mr. Coe, but they want accountability.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person's reason or justification. The consequences lie with them. Not me.

Sorry won't get my license back." Jake walked faster. "Just shut up. Don't talk to me. It's bad enough I have to spend

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together. She

It was the conundrum of every parent with a boy becoming a young man—loving your child enough to let him make his own decisions and his own mistakes, and not stepping in to rescue him.

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together.

I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in a multitude of flavors, like Baskin Robbins ice cream, where men and women can blame one another and everything except themselves for matrimony's mess. They look for externals over which they have no control and, fingering them, take no responsibility.

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.

We must learn this lesson again today. There can be no dillydallying around with the commands of Christ. We are engaged in warfare, the issues of which are life and death, and every day that we are indifferent to our responsibilities is a day lost to the cause of Christ.