Quotes About Responsibility

Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go. Remember, children are born with a decided bias towards evil; therefore, if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to choose wrong.

All of this is one of God's merciful arrangements. He gives your children a mind that will receive impressions like moldable moist clay. He gives them a disposition at the beginning of life to believe what you tell them, to take for granted what you advise them, and to trust your word rather than a stranger's. In short, He gives you a golden opportunity of doing them good. See that the opportunity is not neglected and thrown away. Once it slips away, it is gone forever.

No interest should weigh on you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be as dear to you as that part which will never die.

Herod was afraid of what his guests would think of him: so he did that which made him "greatly distressed," he beheaded John the Baptist. Pilate feared offending the Jews: so he did that which he knew in his conscience was unjust--he delivered up Jesus to be crucified. If this is not slavery, what is?

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.

Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

Freedom was traditionally understood as the power to do what one ought to do.

The spiritually mature person is a wise person. And a wise person has the savvy and skill necessary to lead an exemplary life and to address the issues of the day in a responsible, attractive way that brings honor to God.

As theologian Carl Henry put it, "Training the mind is an essential responsibility of the home, the church, and the school. Unless evangelicals prod young people to disciplined thinking, they waste — even undermine — one of Christianity's most precious resources.

Leaving his partners to die. Watching them run out of air...It was such a real possibility, Collins returning to earth by himself...now that's a stone-cold wheelman. That's the guy you want sitting at the wheel of a gassed-up Ford while you're inside a bank.

My mother and the men believed that being a good man is an art, and being a bad man is a tragedy, for the world as much as for those who depend on the tragic man in question.

Cuando los abuelos enfermaron, varios años después de que yo me fuera de Nueva York, mi madre y la suya se habían peleado sobre quién debía hacerse cargo de ellos, y la dureza de aquella pelea, que acabó en los tribunales y no terminó hasta que los dos murieron en 1997, dividió en dos a la familia. McGraw y sus hermanas, incluida Sheryl, ya no me hablaban, porque ellos habían apoyado a su madre, y yo a la mía.

Real men take care of their mother's

They do not put erasers on guns.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

Eestis on täpselt vastupidi. Siin on minevik olnud nii pikka aega nii masendav, nii ahistav, nii ränk, et nüüd, otse nüüd - eile, täna, homme - peavad sündima mehed ja naised, ideed ja teod, millega luuakse meie suurus, Eesti suurus. Ja mina tahan - ja teie peate tahtma - et meil, et Wikmani gümnaasiumil oleks selle toimumises oma austav osa. Ja selle toimumata jäämises oma häbi.

Ullo ütles: "Kuule - ma ei tea, kas -" Maret sosistas: "Mina ka ei tea -" "Mida?" küsis Ullo. Maret ütles: ,,Seda, kas - meie põgenemine on õige -" Ullo küsis: "Sa mõtled - kui tuhanded küll lähevad, aga miljon peab jääma -?

I don't understand why some guys get self-conscious when they buy condoms. I don't get embarrassed when I buy condoms. I get embarrassed when I throw them out after they expire.

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.