Quotes About Responsibility

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

If you never thank God after every smile, then you have no right to blame him for every tear.

A true man doesn't promise, he commits. A true Woman doesn't demand, she thanks.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up

Her father had arranged it. He'd as good as sold her to Wendell to pay off debts. She looked down at her daughter and wondered if her father owed more money. Audra had a little sister, Carolyn. Would her father sell Carolyn to some brute? There was a baby brother, Isaac. He might not be such a commodity as a girl, but he might already be learning to behave in the image of her father.

Bobby Lambrecht. It's after five

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not...

Saying something mean and then claiming you're not yourself doesn't take the hurt away.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.

Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.

I know hundreds of miles separate us. I know you have your endless duties here and I have mine in Dalbreck. But we've done the impossible, Lia. If we can find a way to end centuries of animosity between the kingdoms … surely … we can find a way for us.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

You are Rahtan, Kazi. You have a promise to keep, and you will betray him eventually.

She leaned closer and said, "Let's just call this a friendly warning. If you hurt my brother, I'll make sure that you regret it.