Quotes About Responsibility

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din min?i.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

La culpa no es de los aduladores, sino del que quiere ser adulado.

debts now-a-days are like children, begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.

On n'a plus qu'à commettre tous les crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire pour excuse qu'on y a été poussé par la destinée.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Do you think we've got control of everything here, because this place is small and simple and we're in charge of it? It's so obvious we're in control, I guess we may have forgotten we're not in control. And I wonder if those people on the Earth, because it was so clear they weren't in control, forgot that they were.

It can weigh on your mind, if you think very hard about a horse's life." He might have meant anything, but what came into her own head was Alfred Logerwell beating his horse with a pipe, and her dad's horses, and other horses she had known, horses who were gaunt, thirsty, lame, wounded, broken-winded, frightened, discouraged.

I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be

Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.

his mother and I aren't too happy about Richard. Frankly, he's getting a bit, er, well … first reading poetry when he ought to be getting his pony ready for the Bath and County next Thursday, then lying to his mother – took his beating in a very, well, cowardly way, then, am I right? howling on your, in your, in the schoolroom,' the Captain finished desperately.

I know you want me to leave. I understand that. But I can't, princess … You're pregnant. And you're alone." "Lots of women have babies on their own." "Not my baby, Abby.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

You always feel someone must be to blame when you are cold or miserable or frightened…It may not be so at all – it is just the weather of life – but even if they are to blame…does it matter?

She was right about one thing - I did need a caring, responsible adult around. If I could have cried on the shoulder of someone I trusted, I never would have stopped. Where were all the adults?

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.