Quotes About Responsibility

As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

Never Walk Past a Mistake

instituted Kester's law on signatures. John Kester taught me that every time I put my name to something, I created a legal document. Consequently, no one should sign anything for me but the most innocuous paper.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

In reality it is not the mistakes we make that are responsible for tense human relations, it is the lack of courage in admitting them.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

It wasn't his fault. It wasn't my fault. Darla chose her own path, as we all must.

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

Princess Lurelia.

Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?

Tad and a couple of his friends had been asked by Tom to move 150 to 200 large metal corral poles from the front yard to a location beyond the canal. The poles were of varying length and were seven to eight inches in diameter and weighed between 25 and 150 pounds each. It took the three teenagers about four hours of hard work to complete the job. The boys finished about noon.

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.

Vous n'êtes pas responsable de la tête que vous avez mais vous êtes responsable de la gueule que vous faites. You aren't responsible for the way your face looks, but you're responsible for the face you're making.

A child be one's greatest test of all.

As long as my heart still beats, there will never not be work to do.

Five figurative children, I have, whom I have raised since I was the age of fifteen.

My job is to make people care about things they otherwise wouldn't.

Oh, but I do, I do owe the world my All, and so, that is what I shall give it.

Philosophers of the past have not done that which need be done, so I suppose it remains up to me to fulfil the inadequacies of those philosophers past.

This is my mission; it is all up to me.

Those born with, have a duty to those born without.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.