Quotes About Responsibility

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up.

What about the check? Suze said. Pay it, he called back. This is your party. I don't like him, Suze said to Margie. Margie slid out of the booth. Think of him as a growth experience. Oh, good, I've been wanting one of those, Suze said and tossed a twenty on the table. It was too much, but she was in a hurry to steal a dog.

Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times. He shook his head. A bar would not be a good career move for you.

He hung up and smiled at Cal. "That was Min. She wants chicken marsala. You can deliver it to her." "What?" Cal said, dumbfounded. "You know the way. It's probably on your way home." "It's not on my way home, it's not on anybody's way home except God's, the damn place is vertical. What gave you the idea I'd do this?

People should be more careful about what they read to their kids," Park said. "Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is only a law if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. And that's garbage, Allie. The law is the law. If you don't like it, change it. But don't break it and then start whining when there are consequences.

Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.

clearly he'd decided that his kid was more important than great sex, a decision Sophie applauded in the abstract but resented in the specific.

While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

This is the deal, honey—" "The name's Sunny, not Honey." "It's a natural law. In every situation in life, someone has to be in charge. If it's a situation I'm a part of, then I'm the one in charge.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

Colpa è una parola che lui usa per farmi tacere

When there is a marriage. A union that you were born of, not responsible for. You, child, should be a gift to those who are ready, not a burden like so many others before you. Come back, child, when I am no longer a child myself. Laura

It is—let's be clear—very, very hard. Freud called child-rearing one of the three "impossible professions" (the other two: governing nations and psychoanalysis). To do even a half-assed job is a Sisyphean task. Children get away with things no adult would.

You've got to make time. It's important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You're not going to be any good to anyone if you're not taking care of yourself.

She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and strange noises and messes they'd have to clean up.

My parents aren't cruel to them. They pay them well. It's more that they treat them like they're pets.

all it took for evil to flourish was for good men to stand by and do nothing?

mom about the fight, and he'd be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn't even give him his Christmas

I knew that it was no fault of ours. We weren't to blame, I thought to myself. I could let it go; I could set the burden down, I could be free. Except, of course, that knowing something in your head is different than feeling it in your heart.

smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess.

Once, she'd cried, telling me that she thought she should have noticed, should have seen that I was in trouble, should have done something. I told her it was my problem and my job to solve it. Just be my friend, I said. That's what I need most.

if you use people your entire life, if you manipulate them and take from them, and throw them away when you don't need them anymore, then yes, there are consequences. Bad things happen.