Quotes About Responsibility

Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech,

Although I knew that quite possibly this would have made no difference to anything at all, in the long run, I couldn't help thinking of all the casualties that silence had left behind, all the wreckage in its wake.

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate.

when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

Every time you say no to your big brother, God kills a kitten. Come on.

I have no time for people who sigh about how quickly children grow up nowadays (my grandparents, after all, were working full-time by sixteen, which I think trumps any number of body piercings in the adulthood stakes),

You know something?" Frank said, after a moment. "You've got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other people do around you.

I don't mind giving you a hand where you actually need it, but I'm not going to be left handling the real business while you chase it off on some nonsense you've got into your head.

Frank has a childhood memory of Ma "screeching at Jackie for being such a bold girl that her da had to go to the pub because he couldn't stand to be around her.

That was my baby brother. It doesn't matter how he went out that window, I should have caught him.

Cal wouldn't have known how to explain that it wasn't that he couldn't handle the job any more. It was that one or the other of them, him or the job, couldn't be trusted.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. 'Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.