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Quotes About Responsibility

He has other soldiers, more capable than I." "Does that free you from your promise?" "You argue like a priest.
~ Robin Hobb
Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
~ Robin Hobb
What would you have thought of me, when you were younger, if I'd gone out whoring at night, or brought women up to the room? How would you see women now? Or men?
~ Robin Hobb
Then in general charge of the pack beasts and wagon animals. But it wasn't just work he taught me. Cleanliness. Honesty. He put a value on what my mother and grandmother had tried to instill in me so long ago. He showed them to me as a man's values, not just manners for inside a woman's house. He taught me to be a man, not a beast in a man's shape. He made me see it was more than rules, it was a way of being. A life, rather than a living." He
~ Robin Hobb
Because she felt no shame at all, you think it must all belong to you. People like her are so adept at passing on blame.
~ Robin Hobb
I had learned, yet again, that I could not serve the Farseers and still claim a life for myself. Not this again, Changer. How could the moments of your life belong to anyone but you? You are the Farseers, blood and pack. See the whole of it. It is neither a binding nor a separation. The pack is the whole of you. The wolf's life is in the pack.
~ Robin Hobb
As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside
~ Robin Hobb
Men it is who think they can rule others' lives but have no bonds to them.
~ Robin Hobb
The welfare of the people belongs to the people, and they have the right to object if their duke stewards it poorly.
~ Robin Hobb
Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.
~ Robin Hobb
I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.
~ Robin Hobb
Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real
~ Robin Hobb
Anyone untaught can do a wrong thing. But after he's been taught, there's no excuse to repeat it.
~ Robin Hobb
As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
~ Robin Hobb
When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
~ Robin Hobb
an Elderling named Sedric was raising the child with Carson.
~ Robin Hobb
She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.
~ Robin Hobb
It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.
~ Robin Hobb
I rode a horse, didn't I, when I had one? Was it because I was better than the horse that I bent it to my will? I'd used dogs to hunt for me, and hawks on occasion. What right had I to command them? There I sat, stripping the hide off a porcupine to eat it. I spoke slowly. 'Are we better than this porcupine that we are about to eat? Or is it only that we have bested it today?
~ Robin Hobb
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right
~ Robin Hobb
You've many tasks and duties, and I won't claim to know all that you do for our prince. I'm sure that at any moment of the day, you can find some reason to be too busy for this. But a man makes time for what is important in his life.
~ Robin Hobb
A bed unslept, and a woman unbedded. The bed is yours by right, but the woman, though she may come to you in time, never completely belongs to you. Yet the child is yours, for the child belongs not to who makes him but to he who takes him.
~ Robin Hobb
He said nothing to any of them, and they knew better than to speak to the captain when he stood thus, deep in thought. He had a problem. He'd settle it without help from any of them. That was what captains did.
~ Robin Hobb
Demain vous doit la somme de vos jours passés.
~ Robin Hobb