Quotes About Responsibility

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

People have to work for a living. There's no way around it. Your parents worked for a living, my parents worked for a living. You have to work for a living too. Even if you move to Portland like every other millennial, you'd still have to do something. Drive

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

My sons have all grown now, so I'm down from five washers to one, but one takes just as long.

Ciascuno si specializzerà nel proprio lavoro, producendo per sé e per gli altri, giacché, per raggiungere la massima efficienza, è necessario che ciascuno faccia il proprio mestiere e non il mestiere degli altri.

Non riuscendo a identificare la prole, i custodi non potranno anteporre la famiglia allo stato e nessun giovane oserà mai colpire un anziano nel timore che si tratti del proprio genitore.

The great opportunity offered by ICTs comes with a huge intellectual responsibility to understand them and take advantage of them in the right way.

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Excusatio Non Petita, Acusatio Manifesta.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

the world is what you make it

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.