Quotes About Responsibility

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

and cleaned out the joint Westbeach account),

The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault." "I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life.

Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.

You will be remembered for causing the greatest war of your time.

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.

O king of Ayodhya, you know I'm innocent, and yet, unfairly, you're asking me to step into the fire. You offer me a tempting prize indeed—to live in happiness with you and my children. But I must refuse. Because if I do what you demand, society will use my action forever after to judge other women. Even when they aren't guilty, the burden of proving their innocence will fall on them. And society will say

Such rulers were adored by the citizens they protected, but often their families had to bear the brunt of sacrifice.

And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love.

I was forced to face the truth. Ram no longer cared for me. Or if he did, it was pushed deep down inside him, suffocated by kingship. And since the children came from my body and were subject to the same gossip and doubts, he couldn't afford to care for them either.

Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.

Left alone to die on a frozen hill! I, whose life had been a rush of attending to the needs of my five husbands—how ironic that at the moment of my own final need not one of them should be with me!

My presence would comfort my sister, who had looked up to me all her life. Wasn't that my duty too? Hadn't my mother told me to take care of her? These different loves and duties battled within me, but finally, my love for Ram won. Was it the right choice? I'd never be sure.

My fault my fault. A refrain so many women the world over have been taught to sing. 'Why do you say that, beti?

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

If a person says that he can handle a certain task, he should fulfill it. Not to do so is sign of irresponsibility or lack of reliability.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people.

It's deeply damaging to portray fit, fully-formed adults as children who need to be protected. We should be raising them to understand that there will be moments in life when you need to protect yourself — and, in a 'horrible' world, there may come moments when you have to choose between protecting yourself or others," Steyn wrote.

it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. And even if your state allows open carry, keep your gun concealed. If you wear it openly, it is like having a target on your back; you will be the first to be shot.

More than ever, we ordinary civilians are the foot soldiers in the war on terrorism.