Quotes About Responsibility

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight ... but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

His ex-wife dumped him and the kids. Sophia's gaze lifted from the wine she held, met his. Dumped? Yeah, decided there was a big old world out there, and she was entitled to it. Couldn't explore it or herself with a couple of kids and a husband hanging on. So she left. How do you know this? Maddy talks to me.

Se uma nação varre os seus crimes para debaixo do tapete, aumenta o risco de repeti-los e perpetua a falsa imagem de si mesma, a qual é suscetível de distorcer as suas outras percepções.

This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar.

if there is no God, everything is lawful

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

Romans 9:17—How can Pharaoh be free if God hardened his heart?

Romans 5:14—Is it fair to judge all people because of Adam's sin?

Oggi è il compleanno di mamma". "L'hai già chiamata?": "Non ancora"... "Chiamala e basta. Ti farà sentire una merda. Ma è quello che fanno sempre le madri". Non era per niente quello che facevano sempre le madri. Lei non sarebbe diventata quel tipo di madre.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not—even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian—it's only a matter of time.

a phone without an answering machine would ring incessantly until the caller gave up. You had to answer the phone in order to stop the phone. But the main reason everyone always answered the telephone was the impossibility of knowing who was on the line. Every ringing phone was, potentially, a life-altering event. It might be a telemarketer, but it also might be a death in the family. It could be your next-door neighbor, but it could also be the governor, and there was only one way to find out.

whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this.

So this, I suspect, is where we really begin: In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.

I have always tried to live by a simple principle: if I am sober enough to drive, I am too sober to dance.

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.