Quotes About Responsibility

As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

and tacksmen pay the Watch to keep an

that every human soul had a destiny and had a duty to find and fulfill it.

Brianna was twenty-three. She might be no more than in her mid-thirties by the time Jem was fully independent. And if he no longer needed her care—she and Roger might possibly go back. Back to her own time, to safety—to the interrupted life that had been hers by birth. But only if she had no further children, whose helplessness would keep her here.

She gave him a long, level look. "And how does thee know that the Lord has not spoken to me, as well?" His eyes twinkled behind his spectacles. "I am happy for thee. What did He say?" "He said, 'Keep thy fat-headed brother from committing suicide, for I will require his blood at thy hand,' " she snapped, slapping his hand away from the bridle. "If we are going to join the army, Denny, let us go and

No man owns his own life," he said. "Part of you is always in someone else's hands.

man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

Ian made a dissentient noise through his nose. Aye, and if I were to try bein' a Friend, who would there be to protect the lot of 'em? Rachel and her brother and Dottie, I mean. Ye ken that, don't ye? That they can only be what they are because you and I are what we are?

After all, who's going to look after all the sick folk, if your grannie's lying about in pieces?" F

He felt both elated and peaceful, almost valedictory: a strange state of mind to experience in the wake of a funeral. Part of it was Charlie, of course, and the knowledge that he had not failed his dead friend. Beyond that, though, was the knowledge that it lay within his power to do something equally important for the living one. He could keep James Fraser prisoner.

There's a reason why the hero never dies, you know," I said, and attempted a smile, though my face felt stiff and false. "When the worst happens, someone still has to decide what to do.

He grinned wryly at his nephew. "Ye'll amount to something for your mother's sake—if it kills us both.

No, blast it! I can't even shoot the bastard, without dishonoring my brother's sworn word!

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, it was probably the fault of the electric eel. John Grey could—and for a time, did—blame the Honorable Caroline Woodford, as well. And the surgeon. And certainly that blasted poet. Still…no, it was the eel's fault

head of the gangplank, she would drop the goat

Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. But what is it that the old women see? We see necessity, and we do the things that must be done. Young women don't see—they are, and the spring of life runs through them. Ours is the guarding of the spring, ours the shielding of the light we have lit, the flame that we are.

no matter how much a man may try to do what is right, the outcome may not be one that he either foresees or desires. And that's grounds for regret—sometimes verra great regret," he added more softly, "but not for everlasting guilt. For it is there we must throw ourselves on God's mercy and hope to receive it.

reputation depended often on the smallest of actions, the daily decisions made with honor and responsibility, not the huge drama of heroic battles.

the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions

remember that—before Bree was born." But I had had one tie then; I had her, to anchor me to life.

about things. And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman

You're honorable. I know it, and so do you." He smiled a little at that. "I try to be. But war's war, Sassenach. Honor only makes it a bit easier to live wi' yourself, afterward.

So you don't think the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children?" Grey sighed, pressing his shoulders against the chair to ease the stiffness in his back. "If they were, I should think humanity would have ceased to exist by now, pressed back into the earth by the accumulated weight of inherited evil.

There was no other means of anesthesia available, and I could under no circumstances do it with a conscious patient. Above all, Myers had asked me to do it. I sought Jamie's face, wanting advice. He was there, standing beside me, and saw the question in my eyes. Well, he'd