Quotes About Responsibility

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation.

There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.

I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.

That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

I tried to tell him all the things I hadn't told him before. How it was both our faults, how I'd taken over with the kids and not let the two of us be in that together. Mostly, I wanted him to understand the real reason I'd thought our marriage was over. It was over because we forgot to stay in love. Both of us.

as far as I can tell, no matter what the circumstances, parenthood is thrust upon a parent. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

More often than not, superstition wins the day as it lifts the burden of responsibility off human shoulders and places it squarely on the much stronger ones of magic.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

He stared at me and the unconscious priest at my feet. "Hey," I said awkwardly, unable to imagine what he was thinking. Don't do this when you grow up , I wanted to tell him. Don't be like me .

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

Some people don't realize there are inevitable wars that just have to be fought. Pacifism isn't always noble, and it isn't always intelligent. You have to stand up for some things in this world.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."[77]

He wants to think of himself as pious, honorable, churchgoing, civic-minded. The bent-down Mexican can drive the farmer to madness, to drink, to whoring, to collecting Ferraris, to the roulette table to gamble it all away. That's why the labor contractor came into existence. It's not as if the farmer can't

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

You cannot be the hands and feet of Jesus if you're sitting on your butt.

When everything is said and done, God isn't going to say, "Well said," "Well thought," or "Well planned." There is one measuring stick: "Well done, good and faithful servant!"5