Quotes About Responsibility

The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

Gabriel was remarried, a father, and the chief of the Office. The restorer was restored.

We all choose the life we lead. – Christopher Keller

the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune

You know what they say about assassinations, Don Orsati. The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

His Holiness carried the burden of the whole Church on his shoulders - answered Albanese - but in his death he was as light as a feather.

He who has two women lose his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind. – ancient proverb

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

the Americans did that. The president and his advisers were too quick to part ways with the Arab strongmen. Now the president's confronted with a world gone mad, and he doesn't have a clue as to what to do about it.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

It reinforced my sense of living in a coherent universe, of belonging to something important that stretched over time, of being a link in a chain - indebted to many in the past, mostly unknown to me, and responsible to many in the future, who likewise will not know who I was.

Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.