Quotes About Responsibility

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J

Perseguís a la gente de quien dependéis, preparamos vuestras comidas, recogemos vuestras basuras, conectamos vuestras llamadas, conducimos vuestras ambuláncias, y os protegemos mientras dormís, así que no te metas con nosotros.

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.

Possiamo passare la vita a farci dire dal mondo cosa siamo. Sani di mente o pazzi. Stinchi di santo o sessodipendenti. Eroi o vittime. A lasciare che la storia ci spieghi se siamo buoni o cattivi. A lasciare che sia il passato a decidere il nostro futuro. Oppure possiamo scegliere da noi.

You just pay your filthy money, and somewhere else, the ax falls.

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

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it.

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

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

No man is an adult while his parents are alive. Until they die he is merely a performance to either please or punish them.

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 author, John Steinbeck, had been a pussy, too afraid to make anything happen. He'd abandoned his characters to suffer. As had God.

A veces haces algo y estas jodido, y otras estás jodido por lo que no haces.

Lo que en realidad quería era meterle una bala entre ceja y ceja a todos los osos panda en peligro de extinción que no se decidían a follar para salvar su especie.

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. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

You never feel as alive as when you make somebody else dead.

You do know to put the condom on as soon as the penis is erect, don't you? -I paid a fortune for bananas out of season in case you need the practice. This is a trap. If I say, Oh yeah, I roll rubbers onto new dry erections all the time, I'll get the slut lecture from my father. But if I tell them, No, we'll get to spend Christmas Day practicing to protect me from fruit.

A condom is the glass slipper of our generation.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

My job," Mitzi said, "is to make everyone in the whole world scream at the exact same time.

For the white man, his guilt was his biggest badge of accomplishment. Only whites killed the planet with global warming so only whites could save it. Their boasting never let up.