Quotes About Responsibility

Maybe the schedules hadn't been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

the big danger to humans is not raiders, angry human-eating fauna, or rogue SecUnits; it's other humans. They kill each other either accidentally or on purpose and you have to clear that up fast because it jeopardizes the bond and determines whether the company has to pay out damages on it or not. SecUnits are ordered by the HubSystem to gather video and audio evidence because nobody trusts the human supervisors, including the other human supervisors.

can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

If I fail, everything terrible that happens next will be my fault. That's the perfect, fitting end to my life, don't you think?" "If you fail, I promise not to tell anybody," he said.

I was not in control of this situation and I could see at least ten instances now where I'd made wrong decisions and being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me and that felt like a short step to being back in the company's control.

She trusts me to take care of myself, even when she doesn't want to. I can't be like a normal consort; I'll just cause trouble. Look what I did at Opal Night, and I wasn't even trying.

Giliead stepped up beside Ilias, leaning his hip on the railing. He watched Ander's retreat grimly, saying in a low voice, "He wanted you to ask him first if we could try that cove, instead of just telling the crewman." Ilias snorted. Good warleaders let everyone do their jobs instead of finding excuses to prove they were in charge.

Unless ART had decided to murder everybody in which case shit was going to get real.

God loves you. He will walk with you all the way, but it's up to you to take the first step.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep an angel from her appointed assignment.

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control

A hero sometimes faces danger," I said. "Like a dragon-slayer or a nurse in a jungle hospital. But don't you think a hero might also be a person who does what no one else wants to do?

To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human. —Bob Goddard

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Ironically, Dr. Cameron was a member of the Nuremberg tribunal that heard the case against Nazi war criminals

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Blameshifting began immediately after the Fall and has been a sinful tendency ever since. In fact, God's commandment for children to honor their parents was a command against blaming parents.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen