Quotes About Responsibility

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? ¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

our law says you do not hurt someone unless they hurt you.

Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power

Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn't going to let her use my life as her second chance.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

I didn't want to blame her for the way the police treated me and every other nought I knew. I didn't want to hold her responsible for the way security guards and store detectives followed me around every time I entered a department store.

Only one person cared if I lived or died. He'd done so much for me in the past and now it was my turn to do something for him.

prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And the thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn.…

You're my woman. It's my job and my honor to take care of you.

Jeffrey looked at being an alpha a lot like having a hard-on. If he walked around with a stiff one in his pants all the time, it was uncomfortable for him and just about anyone else he happened upon. But if he had it when needed—well, it could be one hell of a good time.

Die echte christliche Verantwortung umfaßt das Ganze des weltlichen Handelns, sie läßt sich keineswegs auf irgendeinen isolierten religiösen Bereich beschränken.

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Die Predigt des Wortes Gottes ist die einzige ernsthafte Bedrohung einer stolz gewordenen Menschheit.

Es kommt in einer christlichen Gemeinschaft alles darauf an, daß jeder Einzelne ein unentbehrliches Glied einer Kette wird.

Das Wort der Bibel, daß die Furcht Gottes der Anfang der Weisheit sei, sagt, daß die innere Befreiung des Menschen zum verantwortlichen Leben vor Gott die einzige wirkliche Überwindung der Dummheit ist.

Unrecht leiden schadet keinem Christen. Aber Unrecht tun schadet.

Gott ist kein zeitloses Fatum, er wartet und antwortet auf aufrichtige Gebete und verantwortliche Taten.