Quotes About Responsibility

this before. I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I'm not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can't expect me to provide a health plan.

with a man. Three children walking stolidly

Because mistakes of a certain type have the kind of consequences that people with consciences don't like to live with.

And no soldier does more than he has to. No soldier ever has, since Alexander the Great first put his army together. Initiative in the ranks usually ends in tears. Especially where live ammunition is involved. And civilians.

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

She pressed buttons and waited for answering beeps, and then she said, "I want the personnel jacket for U.S. Army Private First Class Wiley, first name unknown, currently four months absent without leave from an air defense unit in Germany. To me in Hamburg, seriously fast." Then she clicked off. The National Security Council. The keys to the kingdom. There was a knock at the door. For

Laziness and complacency.

that it's easy enough to shoot a man. But there's absolutely no way to unshoot one.

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

Reacher said, "They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm." "You know George Orwell?" Yanni asked. "I went to college," Reacher said. "West Point is technically a college.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

Right there. Stan Reacher, nem con. Which was short for the Latin nemine contradicente, which meant no one spoke against, which meant no one else wanted the job.

Never point a loaded gun at anything you don't definitely want to kill." She

Muller scanned one scrap of paper after another. Griezman's output was prodigious. Most of it was normal ass-covering bullshit. Trivia from below to be shoveled up above. Standard practice. Everyone did it. No one ever wanted the buck to stop with him. No one ever wanted to be at an official inquiry, saying, "Yes, it was me who judged it not worth passing on. So it's all my fault." There

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

signalled to the two guys way in back. Both unlocked their safety harnesses. One crouched forward, avoiding Franz's feet, and held his loose harness tight in one hand and unlatched

Thomas Brant watched them go. He used his cell phone and called his boss, a man named Curtis Mauney.

Sea respetuoso. —De acuerdo. —Sea educado. Fuera del puesto estamos en sus manos. Es una jurisdicción civil. —Los civiles me son familiares. En una ocasión, conocí a uno.

That's the thing with life; whenever there's a real proper decision to be made, there's never anybody around but you.

The members of Team Six "are bound together not only by sworn oaths, but also by the obligations of their brotherhood" (Pfarrer, 2011, p. 28). As one team member described it, "My relationship with Team Six has been more important than my marriage" (Wadsin and Templin, p. 254). Published

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their correspondence, run their errands, pay their bills, arrange their schedule, and basically do whatever tasks, menial to major, they are too busy or self absorbed or distracted or pampered or disinterested to do themselves.

Three men dead, two people injured, and a civilian traumatized by having to kill a man. The department is probably facing tens of millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements. Tell me why I shouldn't walk out of here with somebody's badge in my pocket for this?

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.