Quotes About Responsibility

Life, or the specter of life, is constantly challenging us for acts we've never committed. And sometimes for acts we never even thought of committing.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Que me importa lo que hizo Maradona con su vida. Me importa lo que hizo con la mía.

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

Cheating on research is as bad as cheating on patient care. No! It's worse. In research you can end up hurting many more people.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying.

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

I have to let you go,' he said in a cracked whisper. 'While I can. Leave me that, Fitz. That I broke the bond. That I did not take what was not mine.

I wasn't being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn't fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.

Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them to trust you, you touch them when they are small. Gently, but firmly, so they believe in your strength, too. You don't shout at them, or make sudden moves that look threatening. You give them good feed and clean water, and keep them clean and give them shelter from the weather. You don't take out your temper on them, or confuse punishment with discipline.