Quotes About Responsibility

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

The life you save may very well be your own.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true." May 19, 1962

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.

The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do.

I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service.

In the name of social order, liberal thought, and sometimes even Christianity, the novelist is asked to be the handmaid of his age.

No," he said. Then he drew breath and said, "You got a nice place here. It's a nice part of the country. I'm sorry if I've give you a lot of trouble getting sick. It was my fault trying to be friendly with that nigger." And I'm a damned liar besides, he said to himself to kill the outrageous taste such a statement made in his mouth.

She would have been a good woman if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.

She was seeing that her father spent his last years with his own family and not in a decayed boarding house full of old women whose heads jiggled. She was doing her duty. She had brothers and sisters who were not.

It's no part of your job to think for the Lord, his great-uncle said. Judgment may rack your bones.

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

Ah! sempre la stessa musica![...] Sempre i doveri: ecco una parola che mi toglie il fiato. Un mucchio di vecchi stupidi in panciotto di flanella e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario che continuano a cantarci negli orecchi: Il dovere! Il dovere! Eh, maledizione, il dovere è sentire quello che è veramente grande, il dovere è amare quello che è veramente bello, il dovere è non accettare tutte le convenienze sociali, con il cumulo di ignominie che ci impongono.

verse 4 in chapter 14, for instance: "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).

All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

I am very much a family man.

From the moment I was a teenager, I wanted to be a father, wanted to be a family man.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.