Quotes About Responsibility

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. My point being, Brandy says, is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands, Brandy says.

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on.

People will just knock each other down to dial 911 and be the big hero.

No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.

The fish is some­thing to make me set­tle in one place. Ac­cord­ing to church colony doc­trine, it's why men mar­ry wom­en and why wom­en have chil­dren. It's some­thing to live your life around.

Full-time drudge. Part-time God.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.

This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you.

With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like clean­ing up af­ter a stranger ev­ery day. Wash­ing dish­es all day. Feed­ing a stranger's chil­dren. Mow­ing a lawn. All day. Paint­ing hous­es. Year af­ter year.

When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.

I'm the dick that killed Cassie Lynn Wright.

I am trash," Tyler said. I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world," Tyler said to the union president. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.

It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

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.

How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?

Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.