Quotes About Responsibility

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.