Quotes About Responsibility

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

"Why did you kill her?" the policeman in the rear seat asked…. "They shoot horses, don't they?" I said.

De este modo Bertita cumplió cuatro años, y esa noche, resultado de las golosinas que era a los padres absolutamente imposible negarle, la criatura tuvo algún escalofrío y fiebre. Y el temor a verla morir o quedar idiota, tornó a reabrir la eterna llaga.

esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

echó afuera esa imperiosa necesidad de culpar a los otros, que es patrimonio específico de los corazones inferiores.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

The fatal combination of Republican craveness and Democratic cowardice wasn't having an awful effect solely on the U.S. economy. It was proving deeply scarring to the American psyche.

That's true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living." I

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Influential thinkers in the West have done an admirable job of cleaving apart excellence in technique from distinction in morality. We appreciate that a person can be highly skilled without being moral in the least; that a person can be ethical without having the requisite competence; and that many of us stand out neither in terms of excellence nor social responsibility.

The miracle of the ministry is that God handpicked us to be his representatives to this generation.