Quotes About Responsibility

Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.

Si cada uno se ocupase de lo suyo el mundo iría mucho más deprisa de lo que va.

Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!

She is a little daughter not a mother. And guess what? she likes you A LOT. You just need to man up so her mother gives her to you safely.

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

Demasiado tarde para correcciones! —exclamó la Reina Roja—: Una vez que has dicho algo, ¡Ya está!, debes asumir las consecuencias.

No doy nada a la gente en las manos, eso no serviría; debes tomarlo tú misma.

you've hardly to look at a woman these days but she's in the family way.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent. Yes, I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God's I'd rather you didn't lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

Why had this power come to me? I can scarcely govern myself. At times, I feel as if I could dance through the halls with happiness, and then, just as suddenly, my thoughts are dark and lost and frightening.

Evie yanked him to safety by the edge of his shirt, ripping it. "Thanks. You owe me a shirt," Sam said. "You owe me twenty dollars.