Quotes About Responsibility

may be cruel, a monster, and a murderer, but I do not shirk my responsibilities.

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

KILL THE BEARER OF THIS MESSAGE.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de mantener.

I promised he would be free from all this. I lied.

One of his primary duties as the High King appears to be reminding her she isn't personally responsible for solving every tedious problem and carrying out every tedious execution in all of Elfhame. He wouldn't mind causing a little torment here or there, of a non-murdery sort, but her view of their positions seems overburdened with chores.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

Taryn takes a breath, as if steeling herself. "He's dead because I killed him.

Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet there is always so much more to do.

Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I'm with him on that.

in time-out. That's how you're acting—like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.