Quotes About Responsibility

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

A great free people owes to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil. I ask that this people rise to the greatness of its opportunities. I do not ask that it seek the easiest path.

Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away. —Martin Luther King Jr

Die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten begannen. Der Tote ist vergessen, der Lebende hat sein Land und seine Ehre in Besitz genommen. Das war bei ihm gut aufgehoben.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

James T Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?

While at the wheel, you are simultaneously dealing with issues in time, space, physics, and potentially, life and death – and all the while, you're wondering who's bringing the guacamole.

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Love isn't about how a person makes me feel but how I treat them.