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Quotes About Responsibility

Do what must be done, and then deal with the consequences.
~ Diana Gabaldon
No, there are a good many arguments ye might make about that, but in the end, such choices come down to one: You kill when ye must, and ye live with it after. I remember the face of every man I've killed, and always will. But the fact remains, I am alive and they are not, and that is my only justification, whether it be right or no.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You asked me if I thought it was worth it. I don't know. But it is my duty, regardless.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There aren't any answers, only choices. I've made a number of them myself, and no one can tell me whether they were right or wrong. Master
~ Diana Gabaldon
The wean might be about to fall face-first into the fire, but nobody—save maybe Ian—was going to know it, if it killed him. Ian
~ Diana Gabaldon
And while I would, if pushed, deny absolutely that it was my fault, it was undeniably on my account.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
~ Diana Gabaldon
that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
~ Diana Gabaldon
See, when ye come to reckon your life," she said briskly, stooping to pick up the goat's rope, "ye see that it's the bairns are most important. They carry your blood and they carry whatever else ye gave them, on into the time ahead.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'll try verra hard, John." The Governor sat down, wearily. There were deep circles under his eyes, and his impeccable linen was wilted; obviously he had not changed his clothes from the day before. "All right. I don't know where you're going, and it's likely better I don't. But if you can, keep out of the sealanes north of Antigua. I sent a boat this morning, to ask for as many men as the barracks there can supply, marines and sailors both.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He's so distraught about that woman that I dinna think he even remembers he's the heir to the thrones of Scotland and England," Jamie said, returning from one of these expeditions.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You—shoot him, can't you?" Jamie shrugged and, lifting the rifle to
~ Diana Gabaldon
Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are—or for not coming back.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.
~ Min Jin Lee
When you're 1 out of 5 Asian people on TV, all the pressure is on you and you have to represent.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
I have the LGBT audience behind me, and there's all these people that I want to make proud, and I want to do well aside from just myself.
~ Gus Kenworthy
They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.
~ John Ratzenberger
I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.
~ Mookie Betts
I understand assets. My arm is an asset, and I need to take care of it.
~ Pat Connaughton
It is my assignment to change this country.
~ Sebastian Kurz
In all of my assignments, I have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with U.S. law.
~ Gina Haspel
If you see my stats, everyone is thinking that Bruno has to score in every game, Bruno has to assist in every game.
~ Bruno Fernandes
My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.
~ Thom Tillis