Quotes About Responsibility

When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act—because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.

You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

she took hold of herself, knowing she owed Jesus a life

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant sitting quietly in you chair while your best friend is helicoptered off for emergency eye surgery. It meant letting people say whatever they wanted to you.

Hazel should have done something—left a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack's aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy thinking about the one she needed to rescue she didn't think at all about the one she was leaving behind. She was supposed to take care of her mother, too. She was not supposed to be sipping honey tea with people who are just like the parents you think you are supposed to have. Her mother was what she had.

The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no one would be able to talk to anyone else anymore and then all anyone would have left were one another's unintelligible faces, and maybe some weird gesturing, too, and it would be all Oscar's fault.

Hazel could not explain that she had forgotten, that there was Jack and soul-sucking villains, and sometimes you are too scratchy to remember the things you are supposed to do, even if you do feel really bad about it later.

Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.

vomiting baby fountains.

Part of being grown up is acting the way you're supposed to act, even if you don't feel like it. Can you be grown up for me?

He doesn't want to answer any more questions with "I don't know." He wants his son to be responsible. He'd like him to be brave. Remi just wants to be the good guy, the good father. Just for once, he'd like his son to look up to him, to trust him

They're not going far. You wait and see. Ten years from now they'll still be hanging around with their dirty laundry, looking for a hot meal. Kids these days don't really grow up. Have you noticed, Nash? They don't worry about the future. But surprise, the future's here, isn't it? It's all so goddamned different. We grew up so fast. We had to

There was, for example, one group in Rotterdam that refused to help Jewish people in any way, shape, or form, because they believed that the Jews had brought this misery on themselves by crucifying Christ.

What? You don't want any boiled beef tongue? Ha-ha. Eat the fucking tongue. We are the parents, they said, and you are the child.

Sólo sufres en proporción al daño que tú mismo te haces, a título personal, o el que recibes de los demás concediéndoles el derecho de hacértelo.

It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.

Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility and guilt.

The first half-truth is that the issue of work-life balance is a "women's problem." If we define it that way, then it is up to women to find or at least implement the solution. The second is that employers can make room for caregiving by offering flextime and part-time arrangements.

I feared they'd never have that special connection. The covenant between a mother and child is powerful, but if it's broken....

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.