Quotes About Responsibility

She was going to be an orphan soon, a woman without parents in the world. Which meant that she was the parent now; the one who had to set the example and do the right thing, even when it was the hard thing, and bear some of her burdens and hurts alone.

Probably she's dead already. But you couldn't run forever. They had told her that in rehab, too. Eventually you had to stop running, and even the worst failures, the true fuckups and wastes of space, had to try to fix what they had broken. You had to turn and see what you had done.

that 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.

A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.

DO understand that, when all is said and done, your kids are going to find something to blame you for, no matter how hard you try, and that they will grow up to be who they were destined to be, no matter what you do. A large part of this is out of your hands. Try your best, treat yourself well, and forgive yourself as frequently as possible.

Your own property is in peril when your neighbor's house burns.

But if this prosperity couldn't be attributed to their own personal merit, then by the same token the refugees weren't to blame for their reduced circumstances. Things might have turned out the other way around. For a moment, this thought opens its jaws wide, displaying its frightening teeth.

I didn't understand it then, but I've come to see he was right about his choice to leave his country limiting him forever. We are all confined by what we choose. If I had taken the gift of his question, if I had shown him even the smallest piece of private history, things might be different today. But I was silent and have chosen to remain so for too long. Now even the smallest revelation would seem cataclysmic.

Obama once reportedly told his aides, "[It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.

Our politicians are more fearful of the politics of terrorism—of the charge that they do not take terrorism seriously—than they are of the crime itself.

Quality time" becomes a guilt-induced euphemism for "not enough time.

It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.

Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done.

That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault.

In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. 

So ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

I like idling when I ought not to be idling; not when it is the only thing I have to do.

Throw the lumber over, man!

I cannot help thinking that if the tens of thousands of decent American men and women to whom this thing must be their country's shame, would take their courage in both hands and speak their mind, America might be cleansed from this foul sin.

But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair.  I do not ask for more than my proper share.

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

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