Quotes About Responsibility

He's the boss, after all," Troy thought as he left on his wife's arm.

where curiosity could be assuaged, prestige maintained, and personal responsibility dissolved. With

In a time of chaos, it is the micro-manager who ascends

You can't go encouraging the Vincent Cunninghams of the world because the truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much further and harder and when they hit the ground of reality there's just this terrible splosh that some other woman is going to have to come along and try to put back into the bottle.

What's glamorous is being a good father, a good husband, a good fucking dog owner. That's what I care about today. That's what matters. I will devote everything to that. And I will succeed. Because I cannot fall down again. I will not fall down again. I mean, I don't have to fall. None of us have to fall. We don't all fall down. We don't. So I'm over this drug shit. It's done. And this is my last recovery memoir ever.

So you think you should just be able to kill yourself and no one should care?... You don't think that your actions are gonna affect other people - the people who love you?

Hagas lo que hagas te arrepentiras.

El enemigo dice es el país el que tiene la culpa como si los países fueran hombres.

A police force is about political influence, and it always has been. If I can't get up the home secretary's arse and get you the funding that you're pissing away, you won't be in a position to solve your crimes, any of you.

What people discover about themselves during therapy may not lead to peace or to happiness. Indeed, it often doesn't. But it can lead to the possibility of turning what is unbearable into what is bearable, of taking responsibility for yourself and having a degree of control over your own life.

know lots of doctors who think everything would be fine if it weren't for the patients.

You've got to let them make their own mistakes. All you can do is to follow and make sure they don't scare the horses or get arrested or damage anyone apart from themselves.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

Sir John thought it best not to mention that the crew of the Antelope hadn't been paid for eighteen months either.

commander-in-chief of the British army,

Addressed to the entire British fleet,

Lord Melville was an efficient First Lord of the Admiralty, but his past was catching up with him.

Ganteaume had twenty-one fighting ships under his command, but trained crews for only seven.

With this offhand example, Pichai gives voice to Silicon Valley's reigning assumption, which can be boiled down to this: Anything that can be automated should be automated. If it's possible to program a computer to do something a person can do, the computer should do it. Missing from this view is any consideration of the pleasures and responsibilities of everyday life.

Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a "moral force.

Rather than allowing technology to control us, Mumford implied, we can control technology—if only we can muster the courage to exert the full power of our free will over the machines we make.