Quotes About Responsibility

Don't feel too bad about what humans have done," the mamba said with a gentleness in his voice that she'd never quite heard before. "Feeling guilty doesn't help anything anyway. Humans are animals doing what all animals do: surviving. It's just that you've done it too well, so well that now you have to become a new kind of animal, one who makes sure that all the others survive, too.

It made Kate wonder how such a lazy, irresponsible person could've gotten his hands on all that money, but adults never explained contradictions like that. They only ever changed the subject.

Men han ville ogärna vara orsaken till att någon dog. Det här var inte Tolkien - de var inga orker, troll, jättespindlar eller andra onda varelser som det stod en fritt att begå massmord på utan besvärliga komplikationer. Orker hade inte fru och barn pch en bakgrundshistoria.

The end of the world is coming, and I should really be there for that." "Sure,

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

Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.

What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?

And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired.

to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster

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

What is the point of magic if we can't use it to fix real problems?

You really are a child, aren't you? You're obviously not enough of a man to have a real relationship. You're not even enough of a man to end a real relationship. Do I have to do absolutely everything for you?

Bingle shot Quentin a glance to the effect of, you have no idea how to be a king, literally none. The

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine.

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.