Quotes About Responsibility

I called Kim's house the moment I got home. "I've got your necklace, I told her. Kim was thrilled. Mila, on the other hand, was not. She didn't understand why I didn't return to Kim's house. Now I have to walk home alone, Mila complained. No! Don't, I warned her. Call your father. Get a ride. But do not—I repeat, DO NOT—walk home alone. It's too dangerous.

When the store emptied, Frank gasped. "Goodness! You kids have to stop eating! If you're not careful, you're going to turn into grown-ups. We don't want that, do we?

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

For the first time it was up to me to do some real hunting instead of waiting and reacting to what other people chose to do.

you should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

Al actuar y ser como eres ahora, estás determinando la forma de ser y actuar de los demás.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

The role of love has been misunderstood for a long time. Love is not something we should do to be good or to make the world a better place out of some abstract moral responsibility, or because we should give up our hedonism. Connecting with energy feels like excitement, then euphoria, and then love. Finding enough energy to maintain that state of love certainly helps the world, but it most directly helps us. It is the most hedonistic thing we can do.

Jack turned red,I kinda let a princess die. His grandfather groaned. You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right? the old man asked. So I'm told.

Thank you, Pig Keeper, Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

A blank page is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off (31).

What You Can Do About Sundown Towns: The Three-Step Program in Action To help sundown towns transcend their pasts and end second-generation sundown town issues, I suggest a "Three-Step Program": •?Admit it: "We did this." •?Apologize: "It was wrong, and we apologize." •?Renounce: "And we don't do it anymore.

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again. We must temper our national pride with critical self-knowledge

neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk. ~ Malawian Proverb

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ African Proverb