Quotes About Responsibility

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons.

Lass ihn ein Held sein. Du bist etwas anderes. - Und was soll das sein? - Eine Hexe, antwortete ich. Mit grenzenloser Macht. Die nur sich selbst zur Rechenschaft verpflichtet ist.

Yes," he said. "That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.

That does not mean I must run to help the sons of Atreus every time they lose their wives.

Sons were not punished.

Un homme heureux est trop occupé à vivre sa vie. Il croit qu'il ne doit des comptes à personne.

Comment avions-nous pu nous croire adultes?

Wrong," he said. "A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.

Ve con cuidado —me instó. —Lo haré.

The death I had put into his hand.

Motherhood seemed easy to me, before I had a child.

Tell me," he said, "who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one?" "A happy one, of course." "Wrong," he said. "A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.

Dovrei forse prenderti come esempio e rinnegare ogni cosa? - Sì. Funziona proprio così, Circe. Io dico a nostro padre che la mia magia è stata un caso, lui finge di credermi e Zeus finge di credere a lui, e così il mondo torna in equilibrio. La colpa è tua, per aver confessato. Perché tu l'abbia fatto, non lo capirò mai.

Your son is not yet a man." Tyndareus' voice seemed far away. I could detect nothing in it.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Papa Don't Preach

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. Gods going to have his revenge.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Tony and Kimberley and had wanted to protect her,

Barrack told him that if he continued on this path he would create problems for a post–White House life, in which he was going to face existing investigations without the institution of the presidency behind him. Barrack asked him to think about his business, about everything he had built over the decades and the support he still needed.