Quotes About Responsibility

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

All right. And if any of you get hurt I'm going to be really mad. I sleep with a Glock next to my bed so don't think I'm joking. I will shoot you if you don't make sure Gibson gets back here safely

Love isn't enough so you have to work your tail off to make up that last twenty percent. Don't rely on love, rely on your head and your heart and the knowledge that working and being in love is way better than slacking off and having it all fall apart later.

Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act.

You can't be sorry for how I feel. You can only be sorry for what you do.

Three months after Rachel was born, Lou admitted smuggling her into church. "It wasn't my fault," she said, after she'd confessed. "I was compelled." "What do you mean, compelled?" Andy had asked, annoyed, betrayed, but also consumed by tenderness the way he always was when he watched Louisa breast-feed.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

I heard him tell our parents, "She said no," and my melancholy deepened. Mom and Dad and Chris were downstairs together, merrily strapping on nunchucks and punching each other in the face, while here I was, gloomy and alone. And whose fault is that? I asked myself. Oh, shut up. , I replied.

It's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her. "Huh?" we'd said. "Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.

I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.

Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt.

Adeline, you make things so much harder for yourself than you have to," she said. "Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

If you have a girlfriend—when you have a girlfriend—make sure you take care of her just like she takes care of you.

Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe

Having a child does not change you so much as amplify whatever is unresolved.

Being a mother is a lot like growing up. When, or how, did you become an adult? What was the precise moment you lost your childhood? No one can say. It's all so permeable.

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.