Quotes About Responsibility

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Han enseñado a la gente a necesitar demasiadas fruslerías. Me temo que el noventa y cinco por ciento de la población de Europa occidental aceptaría la destrucción del planeta a cien años vista si ése fuera el precio de poder seguir teniendo lavadora.

Si mañana me fusilan, fusilarán a un general que ha hecho honor a su palabra y a sus juramentos militares. Pero si mañana le fusilan a usted, fusilarán a un general que ha faltado a su palabra y a su honor

Each life has a cycle. One makes one's choices and bears one's punishment

It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.

a "caregiver" might dislike the person to whom they are giving care, while a "carer" cares about the person, period.

Maybe her father would not have been so stressed that he had a heart attack and died. Kit was so smart, her grades so good—she would have gone to university. She'd have had her self-esteem. Her life would have been different. The cops would have charged Jon and the others. But I didn't speak.

What the fuck did you keep that footage for, Daisy? This is your damn fault. Without it we would not be sitting here at this bitch's mercy. Where did you get it anyway?

We are—or we become—what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be. I check the time. I have a few more minutes before I must get into my uniform. I open a browser and search for "Jon Rittenberg" "Colorado" "Silver Aspens Ski Resort." Articles from the local Colorado newspapers pop up. The older articles mention that Silver Aspens, a TerraWest property, has a new operations manager—gold medalist

If that is what happened." Mal comes to her feet. "For your and Frank Horvath's sakes, I hope your decision to not call 911 did not result in a delay that cost her life.

Your father and I, we immigrated, Katarina, so you wouldn't grow up like us. We did it for you. We struggled for you. I cleaned houses and hotel rooms for you. All for you. Everything. And look at what you have done to us." Then my mother got sick. Really sick.

Now you can't even dispose of your dear mother's ashes, the mother who gave up everything in native Ukraine for you so you could have a better life. You never could finish things off properly. You even dropped out of school after we saved all the money for your university education. Too much drinking. Too much partying. Bad crowd.

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

in the clubs at night. He's in a prison. Trapped. In an increasingly dull marriage. Living in a place called "Rose Cottage." A baby on the way. The shattering responsibility of somehow becoming a father. How is he supposed to do that? His own dad never figured it out.

It sort of is," says Joe. "It's been like that for . . . My mom sometimes needs someone to watch out for her. She—she gets drunk, high, does stupid things.

Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?" "There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.

Adan necesitó a alguien, sin duda. Jamais habría tenido el coraje de comerse esa manzana él solito. Eva tendría que habérsela comido sin decirle nada e dejarlo andar errante como un asno por el Edén, un bruto ignorante idéntico a los otros brutos que lo rodeaban. el muy idiota ni siquera sabía que estaba desnudo. Y quem diablos cosió esos taparraboos de hojas de figuera, te pregunto? Él no habrá sido, de eso puede estar seguro.

An adult should not be forced into marriage as a child is forced to eat his peas. Peas are only part of a meal. Marriage is a life's work.

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Man, Duke and I work our fannies off. We don't eat expensive dinners out. We don't go to the mvies or buy our clothes anywhere but Kmart--our biggest treat is taking the kids to Walmart on Friday nights, having a fast food hamburger and doing the grocery shopping.

We all get out of shape once in a while. The trouble starts when we refuse to do anything about it.

Just because she sends you guilt doesn't mean you have to accept delivery.

What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.