Quotes About Responsibility

Tajna vredi onoliko koliko oni od kojih moramo da je ?uvamo. Karlos Ruis Safon: Senka vetra

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.

Jane smothered the glow and burn within her, ashamed of a passion for freedom that opposed her duty.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

You are finally the only person in control of your life. That does not mean it will be easy, but whatever mistakes you make, the injuries you suffer, and your victories are yours to own.

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves… When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don't tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.

Dis love! Dat's just whut's got us uh pullin' and haulin' and sweatin' and doin' from can't see in de mornin' till can't see at night. Nanny to Janie

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves. Ah knows a few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimes too! Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

Cudjo meetee de people at de gate and tells dem, "You see de rattlesnake in de woods?" Dey say, "Yeah." I say "If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him? Same way wid my boys, you unnerstand me. If you leave my boys alone, dey not bother nobody!

De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.

So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)

Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang.

She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for—a passageway for boy children.

He had given Israel back the notes to songs. The words would be according to their own dreams, but they would sing. They had songs and singers. They might not be absolutely free inside, but anyway he had taken from them the sorrow of serving without will, and had given them the strife of freedom. He had called to their memories the forgotten words of love and family. They had the blessing of being responsible for their own.

Jim Allen laughed just as loud as anybody else and then he said: We better hurry on to work befo' de buckra [white people] get in behind us. Don't never worry about work, says Jim Presley. There's more work in de world than there is anything else. God made de world and de white folks made work.

Big talk ain't changin' whut you doin'. You can't clean yo' self wid yo' tongue lak uh cat.

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.