Quotes About Responsibility

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it.

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." —Dr. Seuss, The Lorax 1

With a stranger's hands, you can tie a string around a cat's neck." In other words: If you care about the results, do it yourself.

At its best, parenthood was a challenge. At its worst, it was a struggle through quicksand.

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

They hung, like mirages, shimmering in the future, and the closer you got to them the more you expected them to disappear. When his mother had gone over to work in the States for the first time and his father was supposed to have been making a special effort, Mr. Schock had still managed to turn up at Sports Day after Peter's big race. There was always another meeting, another client, another urgent matter demanding his attention.

I'm not a self-destructive person. I learned that lesson at a relatively young age. But at some point during the drive from the police station to the bar, I stopped thinking. I stopped being reasonable. I stopped being so goddamn responsible. Sometimes none of those things make a damn bit of difference.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

Because school administrators are beholden to both taxpayers and the "keepers of the purse," they do their best to be all things to all people, and they do it with political correctness to boot. After the process of sorting and sifting, we're left with education's white bread equivalent: something that will fill little heads but that is void of almost all useful nourishment.

Lanny Bellin, Daniel's stepfather.

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.

I watch a bird as it brings food to its chicks. How it looks after them, how it protects them. And then I say to myself, "You're a better mother than me" ' Hatidza Mehmedovic, mother of two sons murdered at Srebrenica

if a judge on coming to the bench were to decide to seal himself off hermetically from all manifestations of public opinion, he would accomplish very little; he would not be influenced by current public opinion, but instead would be influenced by the state of public opinion at the time he came to the bench.

The promise of constancy, once given, binds its maker for as long as the power to stand by the decision survives and the understanding of the issue has not changed so fundamentally as to render the commitment obsolete.….

we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.

A bird killed in the name of human power is in truth a loss of power from the world, not an addition to it.

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks