Quotes About Responsibility

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

Kadim ça?lar?n pisli?ini üzerimde ta??yorum… Ben kimim ki tarihe müdahale edeyim?

It's hard to tell everybody to go home if nobody shows up.

If God has given you a talent, do not use it ungratefully.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud." (Shame comes from the crime, not the scaffold.)

They are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them.

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

What can't be forgiven?'" I nodded. "It's words. Words you can't take back

If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.

But words are like bullets. Once they exit the barrel, it's impossible to bring them back.

girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. [Murphy Shepherd]

understand this until you have a boy of your own, but listen close. The sins of the father are carried down to the son. There's nothing you can do to stop what's passed to you. You are going to wrestle with it until the day you die, whether you like it or not. The only choice is whether or not you pass them to your son. Stopping it is a choice you make.' She closed

By your words you'll be acquitted, and by your words you'll be condemned.

Never argue with a woman about her house. Remember that. It's hers, not yours." He waved his paint-brush toward the kitchen and whispered, "I may have built it, but in truth, we're just lucky she lets us sleep here.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

Indifference is the curse of this age. We need to hear that. Indifference is evil, and it could not be further from the heart of God.

For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.