Quotes About Responsibility

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him, said Miss Hillyard. It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of. But that, said Peter, was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.

I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job." "Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters.

I'm determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the best method of producin' human beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator.

Well, it is the law, my lord,' replied Mr Blundell, 'and it's not my place to argue about it.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

This, she felt, was her fault. Her idea in the first place. Her house. Her honeymoon. Her – and this was the incalculable factor in the thing – her husband. (A repressive word, that, when you came to think of it, compounded of a grumble and a thump.) The

We've no quarrel with the Church, you know, if she'll stick to her business and leave us to ours." "My dear man, if you can cure sin with an injection, I shall be only too pleased.

Herein fail not at your peril.

I'm sure one should do one's own job, however trivial, and not persuade one's self into doing somebody else's, however noble.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.

For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage in my diet, And tucked me in my bed at eight, And clipped my hair, and marked my weight, And watched me as I sat and stood: That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my wits And break my heart to clattering bits.

To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them.

Turning people into gene carriers concentrates responsibility on them to manage their own genetic predispositions, shifting the spotlight away from state responsibility for ensuring healthy living conditions.

By this I mean that millions of people are unqualified for parenthood and should remain childless, Ingle explained in the book's forewored.

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure." —Herbert Samuel

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.