Quotes About Responsibility

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

A dog has a military mind. He respects the chain of command. He needs to know who's in charge for the good of the whole pack, and if there's no leader, he'll take the job himself- because somebody has to. The difference between a human and a dog, though, is that the dog doesn't lie awake at night dreaming of having that power. p341

I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

He'd known from the moment he started making it that it was more than just a special gift for his granddaughter. He accepted that it was a penance for failing to get one for Naomi, a subconscious motive buried in so shallow a grave that he could see the bones below with little effort.

of it, a man who did his fair share of killing

In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.

Men can always reinvent themselves," Laura said. "For women, once you're a mother, you're always a mother.

but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

Dogs are stupid," Rusty said. "This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat's respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—" He snapped his fingers. "That's what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.

You can't light a match, then act surprised when your house burns down.

You're supposed to be my lawyer." "You're supposed to be a human being

In that moment, Emily had desperately wanted her baby to be all right. Not out of duty. A child wasn't only a responsibility. It was an opportunity to love someone the way that she had never been loved. And for the first time in this whole shameful, humiliating, helpless process, Emily Vaughn knew without a doubt that she loved this baby.

You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.

Dad. I knew that was it. No more holding my hand. No more sitting in my lap. No more throwing your arms around my waist when I walked through the front door or standing on my shoes while we danced around the kitchen. I would be the bank now. The ride to your friend's house. The critic of your biology homework. The signature on the check mailed away with your college application.

To explain that she knew how marriages worked, understood the petty grievances that could build up. She should tell Charlie that it didn't matter. That if you loved someone, you should do everything you could to make it work because the person you adored more than anyone else in the world could complain of a sore throat one day and be dead the next.

My wife is for making babies. You're for fucking." The sting was unexpected. "That's an awful thing to say." "Trust me, one is a lot more fun than the other.

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive." She stood up and walked across the room to the grand piano, saying, "You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

caught in a Scarlett O'Hara loop of promising herself that she would think about it tomorrow.

Jeffrey standing in the rain, his coat collar turned up to the cold. "There was a cat in the road. It had been hit, and it was obviously dead." Tessa was silent, waiting. "And?" she prompted. "And he picked it up and moved it out of the road so that no one else would hit it.

I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I