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Quotes About Responsibility

Vampyre High Council. Wasn't clueing them in to that a little more important
~ P.C. Cast
With great power comes great responsibilities. weigh he pleasure of leadership and luxury with the sword Damocles, When she believes the ancient is the key to all her needs, Then is when all will tumble down; then is when Light bleeds and bleeds...
~ P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The one silver lining of our sad political reality in 2018 is that we're learning to rely less on the powers that be and more on ourselves to make change.
~ P.E. Moskowitz
You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. And Freddie Threepwood was one of those younger sons who rather invite the jaundiced eye.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I give you my word that, until I started to tramp the place with this child, I never had a notion that it was such a difficult job restoring a son to his parents. How kidnappers ever get caught is a mystery to me. I searched Marvis Bay like a bloodhound, but nobody came forward to claim the infant. You would have thought, from the lack of interest in him, that he was stopping there all by himself in a cottage of his own.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bertie, it is imperative that you marry. But, dash it all... Yes! You should be breeding children to... No, really, I say, please! I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I don't mind admitting that, whenever I looked at Cyril's face, I always had a feeling that he couldn't have got that way without its being mostly his own fault.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Felicia was a dutiful child, and she loved her parents. It took a bit of doing, but she did it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.' 'But she can't see a doctor now.' 'Why not?' 'She isn't well.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
~ P.G.Wodehouse
Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone else's why I neglected his sadness or his love or his reason or his delirium or his hardships: and he'll be right: it was my duty to name you, you, someone far away and someone close by, to name someone for his heroic scar, to name a woman for her petal, the arrogant one for his fierce innocence, the forgotten one for his famous obscurity. But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone
~ Pablo Neruda
Você é livre para fazer suas escolhas, mas é prisioneiro das conseqüências.
~ Pablo Neruda
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso
Ko hoce nadje nacin, ko nece nadje opravdanje.
~ Pablo Picasso
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD In
~ Pam Grout
The language of the wilderness is the most beautiful language we have and it is our job to sing it, until and even after it is gone, no matter how much it hurts.
~ Pam Houston