Quotes About Responsibility

I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Alcohol makes people do stupid things, but it doesn't turn a good guy into a rapist, and neither did you.

You do what you're called on to do, to the best of your abilities. The rest always takes care of itself.

women couldn't afford dead-end relationships after the age of twenty-eight, or they ran the risk of getting stuck in them for years

concern. She was serious and responsible

excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out

I do everything for everyone to make their lives easier and better and then I don't know who I am, and they don't care. I'm the full-service wife and mom

change?" Liz asked plaintively. They never saw him anymore, he was either at sports, at school, or at his girlfriend's. Ever since he'd gotten his driver's license, she felt as though he only slept there.

try their own wings, and pick up the pieces when they fall. And whatever you do, no matter how hard you try, there's always something you did wrong that they never forgive you for. It's a thankless job. But the best one in the world.

children, possibly irreparably, physically

and the other patrolman had called for

his schedule and the fact that he was

I think you pay a price for taking the easy way out.

Who steals an egg would steal a cow." She believed it, and applied it to their vineyard manager regularly.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

The insane conspiracy theories that motivate people who commit antisemitic violence reflect a fear of real freedom: a fondness for tyrants, an aversion to ideas unlike their own, and most of all, a casting-off of responsibility for complicated problems. None of this is a coincidence.

The freedoms that we cherish are meaningless without our commitments to one another: to civil discourse, to actively educating the next generation, to welcoming strangers, to loving our neighbors. The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility. Our night of vigil has already begun.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

I wasn't expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the least he could've done was make the bed.

I think we all build superstructures in our heads, catwalks and trestles that lead us from the acceptance of our own responsibility to the coll mechanics of the factory, where things are an interlocking mess, where everybody's pretty much unaccountable. To be alive is to find a way to blame someone else.

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.