Quotes About Responsibility

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.

There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.

On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction.

If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn't be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.

The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.

It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if we become assassins.

LuaÈ›i femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai înÈ›eleapt?, cea mai puÈ›in st?pânit? de simÈ›uri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un b?rbat, c?ruia chiar dac? îi d? prea puÈ›in? atenÈ›ie, poate s? o s?vârÈ™easc? fa?? de ea, este de a putea s? o aib? È™i a nu o face.

Do what is good for you with as little harm as possible to others

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

A leader must always put the clan's interests before his own; it is the first thing you must learn. That is why self-control is so essential to a leader. The clan's survival is his responsibility. A leader has less freedom than a woman, Broud. He must do many things he may not want to. If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate. Do you understand?

If Earth's children ever forget who provides for them, we may wake up someday and find we don't have a home.

That is truly the loss of innocence, Ayla, when we understand what we must do in order to live. That

La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.

They are lazy, worthless men who contribute nothing, unless they're shamed into it, and they have little shame.

But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone

The Shamud had told him once that the Mother favoured him so much no woman could refuse him, not even the Mother Herself could refuse him – that was his gift – but he warned him to be wary. Gifts from the Mother were not an unmixed blessing, they put one in Her debt.

I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can

South Holding, was the acknowledged leader of the Twenty-ninth Cave, but Summer Camp and

nor can a society last if a few people exercise their individuality at the expense of the community.

Sorry. That is courtesy, right? Custom? Jondalar, what good are words like sorry? It doesn't change anything, it doesn't make me feel any better." He pulled his hand through his hair. She was right. Whatever he had done—and he thought he knew what it was—being sorry didn't help.