Quotes About Responsibility

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

In my experience... the danger of things getting out of hand is there whenever anyone opens their mouths.

To her amazement, the baby, even at this stage, was a fact, and not a choice of any kind. She

It is not, Ianthe, a priest's function to be a bottomless well of woolly uncritical forgiveness. That would only devalue virtue.

Hannah? Tell me you didn't…" Delores paused to clear her throat, and when she spoke again, she sounded very tentative. "Did you?" "I'm afraid I did, Mother. I found Lucy last night." "Hannah! You've simply got to stop doing things like this!" "It's not like a scavenger hunt, Mother. I don't go around looking for murder victims on purpose." Hannah realized she sounded

you didn't intend to hit him, but you did hit him and he died as a result. Unfortunately in this case, whenever that happens there are consequences.

Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

our children are not for us to keep, but to give away.

A yielding shepherd could end up with a disobedient, rebellious herd.

Desta vez, disse ele, vais para a Europa; vais cursar uma Universidade, provavelmente Coimbra; quero-te para homem sério e não para arruador e gatuno.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

It's choice that makes us human.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.