Quotes About Responsibility

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.

to whom much is given, much is required.

I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today. Sire? You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked. I don't understand, sir, Grimm said, frowning. Captain, your clarity of thought in the face of unexpected disaster is a rare quality. It's a poor reward for such heroism, but I'm afraid that I must insist upon continuing to use you for the good of my Spire.

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead.

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.

Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.

Make things right?" I asked. "Where did you learn that one?" "From Mr. Carpenter," she said. "He says making things right is the first and last thing you should do every day. And that it's what you always try to do.

More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe--but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit.

You saved us," she said. "Of course I did," Rowl responded. "I am without flaw.

What could I do? What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?

The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. My

All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

Precisely. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

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

Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

The government isn't the mob, Harry. Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.

You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.

I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward.