Quotes About Responsibility

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ¦ If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

On love: I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Love is a kind of military service

Love is a check that can be forged that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.

In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex! Source of pain! Let a poor innocent person go in peace.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honor is safe

A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give