Quotes About Responsibility

Love is a cage only when you feel indebted to it, constrained by it, responsible to its owner.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Here," he said. "I brought this for you." It was a small hardcover edition of an eighteenth century book called The Path of the Just with a note he had written for me inscribed on the title page. It quoted the Talmud: Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. So he was trying to save me. Why? I was having fun.

A lot of times, people in a family think it's just one person who causes all the trouble," Lorraine, the therapist who lectured us on trauma, is telling the assembly. "But a family is a system, and a sick person is the product of a sick system.

2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most—if not all—arguments can be avoided.

It's not society that holds us back, it's ourselves. We just blame society because not only is it easier but it's a nearly impossible weight to move. This way, we don't actually have to change.

My dad, who was seventy-four, was now ill with myeloma and cancer in his bloodstream. My mom, who was much younger, spent every day and night taking care of him. I wanted somebody in my life to do that for me, and I wanted somebody I could do that for.

Moses never called for a committee when the Egyptians were breathing down his neck.

churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility.

The church Body cannot rise above its leadership. Additionally

administration lead to interpersonal problems and spiritual bondage.

Is who you are determined by what you do, or is what you do determined by who you are?

Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.

Brian darling, I'm really not such an idiot that I don't realize that if a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it again.

I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.

If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won't hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may get. And you won't write anything that anyone will read a second time either.

Detective Ramos confided in me, 'If something happens to you on my watch my ass is O-U-T.' 'How do you think I'd feel? D-E-A-D.

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn't have all the power.

What happened between us has impacted a lot of people around us whom we care for and who care for us, so I think we should try to be civil to each other and make life easier and less awkward for everyone.

You can't drink all day unless you start in the morning.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.

Joe Smith had a Russian knocking on his door asking to be put up on the sly, Joe would be on the horn to the FBI in a flash. Joe does that because he thinks it's right, not because he thinks the FBI will torture him if he doesn't.

It's good to be the top cop in a small town.