Quotes About Responsibility

Mr. Fresh looked up. The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I don't know what the Underworld is like, Mr. Asher, but I've caught some of the road show from there a couple of times, and I'm not interested in finding out. How 'bout you? Maybe it's Oakland, Charlie said. What's Oakland? The Underworld. Oakland is not the Underworld! The Tenderloin? Charlie suggested.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

You're the one with almost an MBA, Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. You should know what to do. They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker, Lash countered. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

You know what? You know what? You know what?' I was waving my finger under her nose. 'You scratched the Son of God. That's your ass, that's what.

My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...

Abby to Tommy and Jody who are hugging] So I'm like, Cold-faced killers on the clock, bitches, we don't have time for your bonery right now. --The Chronicles of Abby Normal

if you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.

A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right?

Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

I gave you all! screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan. And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck, said Regan.

We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.

Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

His heart was in the right place, he really did want to cleanse our people of their sins, it was just that no one would believe that God would give that responsibility to a thirteen-year-old.

Not our problem. We don't have a dead blue hooker in our apartment.

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.