Quotes About Responsibility

Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort.

People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget. If you told him something was important to you and he forgot to do it, he blew you off.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds.

It's a trust thing. When people trust me, I'd just about die before I let them down. You can tell me anything.

Why do I do that?" "Do what?" "Try to take responsibility for everything and fix everybody.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.

But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being. "To

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

We couldn't do as much harm if people could feel what they were doing.

You worry too much. You think you have to do too much. Like you think you're always just about to make some terrible mistake. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn to dump the tanks. There's nothing wrong with making coffee for me or walking the dog. It's nice. But I get a feeling you're doing it because you always feel like you need to do more. To be more. Like if you don't make yourself useful, you're not entitled to the air you breathe.

No," he said. "I don't think it's better for grown-ups. I think you were right the first time. Being a person is just hard." "Why doesn't anybody say so, then?" "That's

When an eleven-year-old boy can be beaten within an inch of his life for walking down the street with the wrong friend . . . ," he said, ". . . well, I just don't see what chance we have, Lucy. We'll get somebody killed.

What a man eats, he should be willing to kill.

Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So

So maybe you're sitting here thinking, I have a right to fire my gun if I think I'm in danger. But does your neighbor have a right to fire his gun at you if he thinks you're a danger to him?

nobody does anything wrong until the moment they do.

I was wondering if Chester was going to have any kind of memorial. I figured probably not. Clearly his sons wanted nothing to do with him. Ellie was a new grandmother, and not wanting to travel. And who else was there? Obviously no one, or I wouldn't have been roped into taking over his care. It felt like the best possible advertisement for kindness. Treat people well, otherwise you might die and no one will notice or find it especially relevant to their life.

Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

She was the love of my life.' But that's too easy. Wait till you have to get right down to who's gonna take out the trash on a night when the mercury dips into single digits. Once you get that worked out, I'll believe you.

Try not to be so sorry, my young friend. Most of what you regret in this world is not of your own making.

Politics—good politics—is public service. There is no life or occupation in which a man can find a greater opportunity to serve his community or his country. —HARRY TRUMAN

God did not intend for a father and a mother to shoulder the full load of child rearing without the support of an extended family and a faith community. Will our faith communities connect with young people and become an extended family for them?

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.