Quotes About Responsibility

But I've kept them safe from the wolves, at least: the most basic and important job of a parent, to keep her offspring from being eaten by predators. Even the ones I can't see.

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

Myrnin to Claire: Claire, there are things to do. Here, too, and I'm staying here, believe me. Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, Bob would be very disappointed in you. Bob the spider? He looks at you like a mother, you know. I'm surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for - She hung up.

But Sam doesn't need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.

You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.

Remember, losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

As the resident dude, Shane was responsible for the acquisition of party favors, like glow-in-the-dark necklaces and drinks. Non-alcoholic drinks for Claire, of course, because I am a stern house mother even if I suck as a role model.

It's your chili dog. Clean it up. It's your turn to clean. The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.

That's incredible...I don't know--okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

But the guilt is nebulous, not actual, and I'm not on the run from the law. Just from the lawless.

Killing someone isn't like in the movies, something that you shrug off with a quip and a drink. It eats at you, even when the person you kill unquestionably has to die. And there's no way that her feelings about Melvin aren't, at the very deepest level, still complicated.

You expect me to do everything for you?' ' No. Just dress me. Please.

It wasn't her fault

Women are always, somehow, to blame for the acts of men; that's more true now than it ever has been.

You'll leave when your business is done here. It was not quite a question, but Jess treated it as one. I will, he said. I owe it to my father. And you owe me nothing. Jess looked away and fixed his gaze on the broad shape of the Lighthouse tower, where his friends had once held offices. I owe a lot of people a lot of things, he said and wasn't sure if was speaking for himself or his brother. No idea how I'll be able to pay all those debts.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out right to know, and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

the responsibility of science, and the limits of technological progress.

The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.