Quotes About Responsibility

Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

I shrugged and said sadly, 'What? Once we gave them the vote, it went totally out of control.' 'You're a pig, Harry,' Murphy growled. 'But a pig smart enough to bow to the inevitable.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.

Never point a gun at anything you aren't sure you want dead.

Close your cowardly lips over that void in your head where your brains went missing and keep them there. Then put your lazy, shapeless ass back into your chair and do it swiftly. Or face me in the juris macto.

There's been a lot on my mind, I replied. It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten, Queen Mab replied. Improve your mind.

You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

This is bigger than me," he said finally. "It's bigger than polka, even. So I guess I'll help.

Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them.

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.

She is my child," Charity objected. "She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

What should I do?" Uriel asked. "Sit," I said. "Stay inside. Don't put pennies in the outlets or play with matches or run with scissors.

The reward for work well-done is more work.

Uriel smiled. Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not. When you say what comes next , what do you mean, exactly? The part involving words like forever , eternity , and judgment . Oh, I said. What Comes Next.

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive.