Quotes About Responsibility

You didn't think that was just a holiday for them, did you? Surely you don't expect me to let them simply sit around and play. Their brains would turn to soup.

It was the war that kept us apart. The world went mad, and your grandfather was no more responsible for the outcome than I was, or than Rose was. We all made our choices. We all had to live with our regrets.

This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chance at life.

There is no need to thank me. It was our duty. In our religion, we are taught, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world.'

I know that now, in the world today, young people take freedom for granted. All the things you have, all of the freedoms you enjoy, they are things you were born with.

Remember: the planes cost a bloody fortune. You, on the other hand, are easily replaceable. Act accordingly

A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can't, is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

It isn't what characteristics, what traits you've inherited from your parents that make you who you are. It's the choices you make, Henry, that decide what kind of person you become.

Being a mom is a big job, with small and memorable moments calling on our patience and building our character every day.

Sadet would like to know if Sadet will sadet to the Throne Hall this afternoon and if Sadet intends to sadet, then Sadet would like to sadet with her.

Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence.

Asked in a class in the late 1970s at Harvard Business School about a hypothetical CEO who discovers his product could kill customers, young Jeff Skilling said he "would keep making and selling the product. My job as a businessman is to be a profit center and to maximize return to the shareholders. It's the government's job to step in if a product is dangerous.

Starting in the 1970s, the Friedman Doctrine and its extrapolations freed and encouraged businesspeople and the rich to go ahead and conform to the left-wing caricatures of them, to be rapacious and amoral without shame.

He was saving innocents and serving truth. And in the final judgement, what is more important? The burdens we bear -- or the way we bear them?

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there.

You're—personally responsible for The entire strip to be washed away Cleansed, as if gallons of, um, rubbing alcohol Flowed through the strip and were set on fire It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom And his silk And he— He erected a beautiful city A city of stars

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Giving somebody false hope is worse than not giving them any hope at all, I think. You want to be honest with people even in small things because if you're not, then how will they believe you in anything that you say? The whole idea is the trust that you develop with your patient is something that's the responsibility of the doctor. It's as important as the medicine that you give somebody, if that's necessary.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.