Quotes About Responsibility

People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.

Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other people's lives more seriously.

It's not a woman's fault if a man decides to behave like an ass.

Hey," he called after her, his hands on his hips, "are therapists supposed to give patients heart attacks?

If she hadn't wanted to marry him, she could have thought up a good dozen ways to break it to him besides running from the altar like a scalded cat.

But being a substitute parent? Him? It was a tall order for a guy who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive.

Tired is the catchall for everything when you're a parent of a small child. When your child throws a tantrum, when your child refuses to kiss his grandmother, when your child doesn't say thank you, when your child does anything remotely shitty, you can always just say: He's tired or She didn't get enough sleep last night and you're off the hook.

What you don't get from having a mother versus being a mother is how consuming it was, how profoundly one-sided. The child's job was to need her mother less and less, a progression toward independence. But the mother's job was to always help, always be there when needed, and never, ever stop worrying.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

When you betrayed someone, you didn't just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.

You, my brother, have some explaining to do," she murmured, and taking his arm, hustled him outside.

Outnumbered? What about Le Favre, that little maggot in command of the French frigate? Where was he durin' all this?" Morgan shrugged. "Bolted as soon as things got hot." "Bolted, did he? When I catch up to him he's goin' to wish his arse had been blistered in butter and set afire.

Work left undone for years affects people's moods, their feelings about themselves, their ability to work creatively, and their hopes for the future.

If the super-rich believe that they are no longer part of society and have little need of government, it is not because this belief corresponds to objective reality.

Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]

We are tyrannized by our options.

When you're always taking the next healthy step mentally and physically, you're as in charge of your life as you can be. But what happens after you take that action—how others react to you, whether you get that job or that award or that opportunity—isn't something you're in charge of. Wallowing in "what ifs" doesn't do you any good; in fact, it's a distraction from taking the next positive, powerful, passionate step forward.

they did," murmured Amanda, remembering anew the horrible night she learned of the carriage accident that had instantly killed her father and mother. As an only child, Amanda had had to deal with all the arrangements for the funeral with only her two aunts,

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.

Frankly, Victorians don't take orders from Greg Hunt, the bloke who forgot to place an order for vaccines. Seriously. "We're out there doing the commonwealth government's work for them; the least they can do is not be lecturing us on how to get that job done."

Ultimately, we need to remain vigilant (in reference to dealing with the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic)

We're heading towards being one of the most vaccinated places in the world - and I couldn't be prouder.

We've said the whole way through – this (Covid-19) is like a public health bushfire. And just like a bushfire, there's steps we can all take to keep ourselves and our homes safe.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.