Quotes About Responsibility

Æthelwulf's sons might well have worried that their new twelve-year-old stepmother

few may have served out of obligation, for land they had already been given,

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.

You don't have the power to control the people, situations, and circumstances around you. You only have the power to control yourself.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.

The completely opposite scenario occurs when one parent, usually the father, demands that the other parent, usually the mother, keep their child up late so that he can play with him or her. Not only does the child suffer, but it is the mother who is the unappreciated victim, because she is trying to maintain marital harmony and trying to keep her child well rested—and she can't do both. Obviously this is not simply a child's sleep problem but a family problem.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. [in Éléments pour une éthique]

Het is altijd mijn overtuiging geweest dat je iemand brood moet geven als hij honger heeft, maar hem zelf voor het beleg moet laten zorgen. Dat stimuleert het initiatief.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.

that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to believe that nobody, really, was as smart as herself. For another thing, people who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way to behave; then he suddenly discovers that, even for a prince, there are such things as music, literature, not to speak of standing for the post of deputy.

The truth is that as we grow older we kill all those who love us by the cares we give them, by the anxious tenderness we inspire in them and constantly arouse.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

but at this period of history there are tasks more urgent than the manipulation of words in a harmonious manner.

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.