Quotes About Responsibility

Finally, on the day that he was scheduled to make the big announcement, Amelio called Jobs in. He needed an answer. "Steve, do you just want

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German intellectuals—viewed as a class—was no better than that of the mob.

Would you cure your own child from being schizophrenic if you knew that, if you didn't, he would become a Vincent van Gogh and transform the world of art? (Don't forget: Van Gogh committed suicide.

Para castigarme por mi desprecio a la autoridad, el Destino me ha convertido en autoridad a mí mismo.

And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . 

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

His ideal was of a prosperous middle class whose members lived simple lives of democratic equality," writes James Campbell. "Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society.

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.

Tasks . . . she'd been putting off, she suddenly dove into, such as talking to Joel about sex. Instead of teaching him as she'd taught me — with the help of college nursing texts that made the sexual organs look like plants — she use the new Penthouse .

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.

A man must support his own weight, no matter how much money or power he has; that is the law of gravity.

existentialist

We all owe out something, Easy. When you owe out then you're in debt and when you're in debt then you can't be your own man. That's capitalism.

He might not be a good man but he is a good son.

No. What I wonder is why would you care?" "I'm a cop, LT. It's my job to protect the welfare of even garbage like you.

As always, King was the ultimate authority, the one and only arbiter. One night when the communications watch officer groped his way across the darkened flag bridge, he bumped into an unrecognized figure. "Sir, are you on duty?" he queried. "Young man," came the response, "this is the Admiral. I am always on duty.

No President who performs his duty faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.