Quotes About Responsibility

She was still head of the Giambelli family, and they had a right to know why she believed their father had been hurt. They had a right to know it fell to her blood. I've spoken with David, she began, and smiled at his children. Before his doctor came in and forced him to rest.

My family's caused your pain, she said to Theo and Maddy. I'm head of the family and responsible for that pain. Dad works for you. He was doing his job. As his stomach continued to shudder, Theo clenched his teeth. It's that bastard's fault, not yours. Is he in jail? No. They've yet to find him. It appears he's run.

She took another breath, switched to English. I'll leave tonight. Hell. Tyler scowled. We'll leave tonight. I don't need a baby-sitter. Yeah, right. He lifted his gaze now, met hers with chilled steel. We've got an equal stake in this, Giambelli. You go, I go. I'll check out the vineyards, the winery, he said to Tereza. If anything's off there, I'll spot it. I'll leave the paper trail to the paper pushe

We knew he was taking an adventure, and we gave him the room. If we hadn't, he'd've found a way around it. Birds have to fledge. You can't stop it, no matter how much you want to keep them safe in the nest." Brian O'Dell The Hollow

Owning land, he mused, being responsible for it. Plowing, planting, tending, watching things grow. Keeping an eye on the sky, sniffing the air for a turn in the weather. Not a life for Grayson Thane, he thought, but imagined some would find it rewarding. There'd been that simple pride of ownership in Murphy Muldoon's walk—a man who knew his feet were planted on his own.

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

You think we're asking too much of her?" Fin asked. "I can't know, and that's the worry." One that ate at her, night and day. "If I try to see, and he catches even a glimmer, all could be lost. So I don't look. I don't like putting the beginnings of it all in her hands, even knowing it's the right choice.

What are you, twelve?" "The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man." "Irish philosophy?" Sasha responded to it by shoving the heel of her hand through the water, and sending it into his face.

That the fate of the world rests with a girl who knows so little.

Ale nie myli? si? co do kilku rzeczy. Jestem s?aba i g?upia. Jestem bezu?yteczna. Nie chroni?am dzieci, gdy mia?am taka okazj?.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

If I screw this up, you won't have to take a swing at me. Parker would already have flattened

teacher and the guard." He nodded.

Power," Mia told Nell, "carries with it responsibility, a respect for tradition. It must be tempered with compassion, hopefully intelligence, and an understanding of human flaws. It is never to be used carelessly, though there is room for humor. Above all, it must never be used to harm.

A leader will be honored, but a leader carries the burden for us all.

Not answering your phone is the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and going: La la la.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong.

Além disso, sei tomar conta de mim. - Porque será que as mulheres dizem sempre isso depois de se meterem numa grande alhada? - Porque os homens vêm sempre atrás delas a tornar as coisas piores.

life's marked along the way, darlin', by the deeds we do, for good or ill. Those we leave behind judge those marks, and remember.

You can't blame yourself for being, Kirby.(...) You can't blame a tree for reaching for the sun or another for rotting from within. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

She's just mean. I guess some people are, and if they never pay a real price for it, they just get meaner.

Love doesn't change overnight. he corrected. It can be killed or it can be nurtured. That's up to the people involved.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III

such sacrifice, to damn an innocent to