Quotes About Responsibility

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Life is a series of things we would rather not do.

The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)

When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.

The beauty o' making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.

But some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.

We're all like children, Rikke. The older you get, the more you realise the grown-ups won't suddenly walk in and set things right. You want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

Cause my mother says boys whine about what's done. Men decide what will be." "You always listen to your mother?" "I complain about it, but yes.

Words are weapons. They should be handled with proper care.

Lethal heat waves, droughts, and runaway wildfires of unprecedented magnitude, check. The scientists warned us. The corporations with vested interests in the fossil fuel industry and the governments they supported acted just like the tobacco companies. They pretended the science was unsettled and stalled for precious years.

A man is lent, not given, life.

Aunt Love said no housework was ever wasted, that it had to be done sooner or later anyway, but Jocie noticed the sooner you did it the sooner you had to do it again.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

This may sound terribly selfish, but I love the freedom I have. I don't have to worry about a man's wardrobe, or his relatives, or his schedule, or his menu, or his allergies. I would not be married again.

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change.

There's no use asking Mom and Dad to talk to Nana about her punishment. They won't stand up to her. They never do. This is why I decide I am not going to speak to Nana or Papa or my parents. What Leila and I did was wrong. But now I have been put in the middle of something else entirely. Something about Adam and the adults and things that happened before I was born, maybe even before Adam and Uncle Hayden and Mom were born. ~pgs 144-145; Hattie on adulthood

I'm not ready for this," she says. "This," Florida says. She thinks: This is the subject that defines women. Having babies. Will you have them? Can you have them? Do you want to have them?

He says, "A family that big must have been a lot of work." "It was. You're a man, so you'll never know work that hard. It's reserved solely for the women.