Quotes About Responsibility

She had paid for these mistakes. (Had she?) But still, you are never fully acquitted of any mistake that involves another, and so the Intern had not been fully acquitted of her mistakes, and her shame of such mistakes.

He has made a show of being a devoted family man but his life has been carefully arranged so that he spends as little time with his family as possible.

one kept me informed on Dad's progress. Or lack of progress. Or how serious it all was—is. You certainly didn't, darling." Yet, was this true? Vaguely I seemed to know that my father was not doing well for some time. Driving on our country roads you see the carcasses of animals—raccoons, deer—lying at the roadside, killed

The power of a parent to wound, to kill. The power of a parent is terrible.

if she petted or fed one animal in the presence of others, she must pet and feed them all. It was what Jesus would have done had He lived intimately with animals.

For the past few days, she had been praying and meditating upon what to do and she had decided she must do nothing, for it was she who had made the mistake and not the boy and she must not bear witness against him.

Você tem o desejo de pôr a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem dúvida que deseja pôr a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na própria cama.

No noose is good noose'—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.

Sleeping with another person is a responsibility, a trust: you must not intrude into the other's dreaming.

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it.

Mom was furious at the way people abandoned their pets in the country—"As if animals aren't human, too.

The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.

?flah olmamak bir yeti?kinin senin davran??lar?na itiraz etmesinden ba?ka nedir ki?

Why had she hesitated to say they were lost, why hadn't she told him to turn the car around, to reverse their course, oh please!—but she had not dared offend him. The black water was her fault, she knew. You just don't want to offend them. Even the nice ones.

She had never been drunk before, but believed that that was what had happened to her. She'd been drinking something made of orange juice and she'd been warned, but had not listened or could not remember having listened, and could not remember who'd warned her. She did not wish to name any names and to involve her friends or anyone for no one was to blame except possibly herself.

They said, Tell us. She said, Only what I know. They said, Tell us, so that justice can be executed. She said, I was drinking. I was to blame. I don't remember. How can I give testimony against him!

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?' 'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!

On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.