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Quotes About Responsibility

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
~ Dodie Smith
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
~ Mary Webb
I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
~ David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
~ James Hogg
What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'
~ David Cross
It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
~ Sara Bonnett Stein
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
~ Margaret Culkin Banning
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
~ Anonymous
Act your age, not your shoe size.
~ Prince
A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
~ Stephen Crane
Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?
~ Kiefer Sutherland
Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.
~ Charles Osgood
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
~ Lee Iacocca
Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.
~ Unknown
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
~ Oscar Levant
This shirt is "dry-clean only"... Which means it's dirty.
~ Mitch Hedberg
George," said Fred, "I think we've outgrown full-time education." "Yeah, I've been feeling that way myself," said George lightly.
~ J. K. Rowling
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
~ Dwight Morrow
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
~ Harvey Diamond
Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.
~ Bill Burr
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
~ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson