Quotes About Responsibility

We have a solemn pact.' Kaye nodded to Mother and looked over at Em talking to some neighbors. 'If one of us is unconscious in the hospital, the others will make sure it's pulled.' 'The plug?' Ruth asked. 'The chin hair,' said Kaye, eyeing Ruth with some alarm. 'You're off the visitors list. Mother, make a note.

It would be natural for some to feel that pressure and choose speed over quality. And try to hide it when something goes wrong. Not because they're bad people, but because they're people. That way lies tragedy.

That any decent person would've refused to participate in the Holocaust.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.' Myrna

Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.

He sounded more confident than he really was. But Chief Superintendent Gamache understood that a leader could not afford to reveal his own emotions. He couldn't demand courage in others while quaking in fear himself.

The senior council couldn't allow me to disobey orders and get away with it. This is their punishment. And it's right. Just as what I did was right.

Everyone we meet, every word we speak, every action taken or not taken lives in our longhouse. With us. Always. Never to be expelled or locked away.

But Annie hates children." "Well, she's not very good with them, but I don't think she hates them. She adores Florence and Zora." "She has to," said Beauvoir. "They're family. She's probably depending on them, in her old age. She'll be bitter Auntie Annie, with the stale chocolates and the doorknob collection. And they'll have to look after her. So she can't drop them on their heads now.

He knew she was right. But he could also feel his own conscience stirring. Accusing him of following the law, in lockstep. And marching right past common sense. Katie Evans was dead.

experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable,' said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, 'Emerson.' 'Lake and Palmer?' 'Ralph and Waldo.

It would be a cull." "Culls happen for the health of the community. They're unfortunate, but necessary

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men,' said Myrna. 'Dr Martin Luther King, Junior.

there are generally three parties to child abuse. The abused, the abuser and the bystander. One parent does it but the other knows it's happening and does nothing.

the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

Não é dos outros, caro Brutos, a culpa, mas de nós mesmos, se nos rebaixamos ao papel de instrumentos» - in Julio Cesar de William Shakespeare

think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does. And don't take it all on yourself.

She'd been a psychologist in Montreal, until she'd realized most of her clients didn't really want to get better. They wanted a pill and reassurance that whatever was wrong wasn't their fault. So Myrna had chucked it all. She'd

One thing Gamache knew for sure. Little Frederick Lawson had not picked up his stick, pointed it, and slaughtered a village filled with old men, and women and children. So how did one become the other? How did a nine-year-old boy acting out heroics become a twenty-year-old man committing an atrocity?

They lead "still" lives, waiting.' 'Waiting for what?' 'Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

It's possible to have a leader you wouldn't choose as a friend. But you need to at least respect them.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that.