Quotes About Responsibility

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Criminals who went against Doc seldom wound up in prison. They either learned a lesson that made them law-abiding men the rest of their lives--or they became dead criminals. Doc never did the job halfway.

Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

Mankind can never get rid of the need for religious self-identification: who am I, where did I come from, where do I fit in, why am I responsible, what does my life mean, how will I face death? Religion is a paramount aspect of human culture. Religious need cannot be ex-communicated from culture by rationalist incantation. Man does not live by reason alone.

The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.

Every hard duty that lies in your path, that you would rather not do, that it will cost you pain and struggle or sore effort to do, has a blessing in it. Not to do it, at whatever cost, is to miss the blessing.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Wishes are for children," Jane Chatwin said. "I grew up.

By the standards of magical society they'd fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn't had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

A Fillory without a god. It was a radical notion. But he thought about it, and it didn't seem like a terrible one. They would be on their own this time - the kings, the queens, the people, the animals, the spirits, the monsters. They'd have to decide what was right and just and fair for themselves.

She was young enough that all she had to do was kid things, but she was also getting old enough that she wanted to do more than play games and pretend.

Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else.

It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

he was still in the real world, where bad, bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.

Highlight: In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.