Quotes About Responsibility

Never point a gun unless you're ready to end a life. -Horse

I'm not a bitch," I replied, and it took everything I had to keep my voice steady. "I'm a mother . I can't afford to play games with you, Ruger. You'll break me.

When a man takes a woman as his property, it's not about owning her," he continues, eyes searching my face. "It's about trusting her. This is my life I'm handing you, Sophie. Not just my life – my brothers' lives, too.

I just drove across the country to commit murder for you. Earlier today I helped burn a couple bodies to cover your tracks. That implies a certain level of commitment on my part, don't you think?" "Well, I guess when you put it that way . . .

Adulting was bullshit.

Saturday morning I vacuumed, dusted, folded laundry, repotted an ivy plant that had outgrown its clay pot months before—anything to avoid having to sit down again with those damn freshman papers.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Tiger Lily, you're a fool." he said, and kissed her forehead. And despite his size, and the fact that a boy like him was not built to shoulder much of anything, he shouldered her weight, and carried her home.

Love can't be taken back once it's given

No one seemed to notice that Pine Sap had taken his life into his hands by holding hers.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?" Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

However, leadership is not confined to the CEO. Leadership is better understood as a process that can take place at any level of an organization.

What would be worse is to have children only because it's what you feel is expected. You

When women accuse men of wrongdoing, they are doubted; when they retract, they are believed. If they allege abuse, their word is suspect; if they retract an abuse allegation, their word suddenly becomes credible. One is prompted to ask: Why is women's word to be trusted only when it excuses and absolves men of responsibility for their violence against women?"' Quote from Jan Jordan

Ask yourself, What kind of person aspires to have sex with a comatose young woman? And how do you label someone who deliberately gets a girl drunk in order to do so?