Quotes About Responsibility

You are created to be your husband's helper, not his conscience, not his vocation director, and certainly not his critic.

As a Christian you have a desire and a duty to be honest in all things, but you must honor your husband as you do so. So, if you cannot sign your name to a document that would make you a liar, you must refuse to do so with grace and humility. There may be other ways to deal with it. Perhaps you could file separate tax returns, whereby you wouldn't be required to sign his returns, and then you wouldn't be involved in how he conducts his business.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

At the present time I am spending nearly $300 a month from my own personal funds for work which in my opinion has absolutely to be done to keep up the work of the office

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.

How could she say anything other than "yes"? The only question she really had to answer was this: Was she going to do it begrudgingly or could she do it with a servant's heart?

The way he handled this would set the tone for how this whole thing would be treated by the team. He leveled a stare at his best post player. "Rafe, I don't even want to know what you just

True confession: My dad wouldn't leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that's like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

La décadence d'une société commence quand l'homme se demande: "Que va-t-il arriver?" au lieu de se demander: "Que puis-je faire?

I'd thought something was required of me, but I hadn't wanted to find out what it was.

I know they argue about whether or not it's right, whether or not the baby is alive at this point or that point in its growth inside the womb. This wasn't about that. It wasn't what the lawyers did. It wasn't what the doctors did, it wasn't what the woman did. It was what the mother and father did together.

There are 2 primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept responsibility for changing them.

You know the drill—your child cruises over to the coffee table and throws the remote control at the dog. But before he does it, he turns his head and looks over at you with a devilish grin on his face. That's because you've already told him, ten times, this is not okay.

We all have our crosses to bear.

Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them. Coronado: Stories

This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young

Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.

We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?

She leaps into dark waters and then complains about the depth but blames me for the leaping").

We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God.