Quotes About Responsibility

Children are pushed to give up their dependency needs and assume responsibility too early. This is particularly common in alcoholic and dysfunctional families.

Der Preis der Freiheit ist ewige Achtsamkeit.

If you are receiving Medicare and were receiving Social Security benefits when you suspended them, your Medicare payments can no longer be paid automatically and deducted from your Social Security payments. You will need to pay your Medicare premiums out of your own pocket. Don't forget this, as failure to do so can mess up your benefit suspension.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.

This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.

William Graham Sumner, "That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich," in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

to write only when you're inspired devalues the craft and defies your need to learn and improve. If you're committed to excellence in writing, you accept responsibility to do everything you can for your own self-improvement.

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

These are your children, and like it or not, they are your responsibility. I presume you got these infants on my sister like a man, and if you want to walk and piss like a man, you can damn well learn to take care of your family like a man, too!

And Lydia herself—the reluctant center of their universe—every day, she held the world together. She absorbed her parents' dreams, quieting the reluctance that bubbled up within.

He wonders who decided which books were too dangerous to keep, and who it was that had to hunt down and collect the condemned books, like an executioner, ferrying them to their doom. He wonders if it is his father.

they learned that an unmowed lawn would result in a polite but stern letter from the city, noting that their grass was over six inches tall and that if the situation was not rectified, the city would mow the grass—and charge them a hundred dollars—in three days. There were many rules to be learned.

She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.

mientras su madre prometía a las alumnas enseñarles todo lo que una joven dama necesitaba para llevar las riendas de una casa. Como si una casa, pensó Marilyn, fuera algo que pudiera irse galopando si te distraías.