Quotes About Responsibility

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much, the mother oysters and mussels must be treated gently—as the Scottish pearl-fishers, too, had learned to their regret. These creatures are a barometer of how we are treating our planet. Sometimes in our greed to make them produce pretty things for our pleasure we forget that they deserve our respect.

the weekly market. In short, he had done everything he humanly could, but the population of Spinalonga always wanted more and Elpida was not sure that her husband had the energy to fulfil their expectations. She worried about him constantly. He was in his late fifties, like her, but his health was failing. Leprosy was

We act of our own free will, and if we find life too much to be borne, then clearly there's no one to blame but ourselves.

About these times, my father says that he wishes he had made better decisions. That the burden of raising us alone led him to favor strict regimens and that he wasn't able to talk about his emotions. In retrospect, there is a lot he wishes he'd done differently.

I imagined how much pressure he must have felt as a reviewer who could destroy entire careers. Who would want that sort of power? Especially over something as simple and charming as food?

you'll have to trust me that it takes two people to make a marriage either succeed or fail.

Noam knew it was already too late to repair his mistakes. Whatever he and Dara had was broken now. And it was no one's fault but his own.

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (Kneubuhl 89)

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (p 65)

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

When we recognize that we are not responsible for our childhood deprivations, and that we are entitled to feel anger (but not to act on it - awareness is not a license to kill), then we are able to let go of that anger and not be controlled by it.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.

You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician... had to keep his lips constantly moving.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We're all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn't that what Original Sin is all about?

Politics is always personal, my dear, she said. That's what makes it deadly.