Quotes About Responsibility

It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently

All in one day I flew to Puerto Rico and took care of two matters. Then I flew to Chicago and took care of one matter. Then I flew to San Francisco and stopped at a bar for a couple of glasses of wine, because I knew I wouldn't get anything to drink when I got to the Fairmont to meet up with Jimmy and give him the report. I walked into Jimmy's hotel room at exactly 8:00 P.M. and he yelled at me for keeping him waiting.

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

feel very bad about it now. I wasn't an abusive father, but I started getting a little neglectful, and Mary was too good a woman, too easy on me. Then at some point, I just joined that other culture and I stopped coming home. But I brought cash over every single week. If I did good, Mary did good. I was a selfish bastard. I thought I was doing good by giving money, but I didn't give the kids enough family time. I didn't give my wife enough time.

God would reveal "Himself to anyone who would "listen," and that "He" had a minutely detailed plan for every human life. The sheer chutzpah of this belief is positively breathtaking. It's the most grandiose excuse imaginable for the evasion of individual thought, responsibility, and decision making.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

For whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:19.)

God gave man dominion over everything that moves upon this earth or swims in the sea. But we must know how to appropriate that authority and exercise that dominion. Even if you know how, unless you see yourself as God sees you, you won't act on it. You have to believe you have the authority to do it, and then see yourself through the eyes of God.

Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.