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Quotes About Responsibility

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
~ Pablo Casals
To live is not enough; we must take part.
~ Pablo Casals
Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
~ Pablo Casals
a qué se dedica el muerto? —Se dedicaba al pedo ajeno. Era dueño de la concesión de la Modelo en el municipio. Pal velorio hubo cerveza gratis para todos.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
El futuro será como quiera que sea, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Héctor se dio media vuelta y salió de la habitación. Estaba dispuesto a jugar el juego, siempre y cuando alguien le avisara de quién era la pelota, dónde era el partido que se jugaba, contra quién jugaban y cuáles eran las reglas.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
~ Paddy Ashdown
THE MOTHER Hobby! What can she do? She cooks and she cleans. You gotta have a house to clean. You gotta have children to cook for. These are the terrible years for a woman, the terrible years. THE GIRL You mustn't feel too harshly against her daughter-in-law. She also wants to have a house to clean and a family to cook for. (THE MOTHER darts a quick, sharp look at THE GIRL-then looks back
~ Paddy Chayefsky
Maybe you ought to go, Charlie. CHARLIE No, they asked me. I told them I didn't want to go. HELEN It might do you good to have a night out. I know you're upset about the baby... CHARLIE I'm not upset... HELEN Come on, Charlie, I know how you feel. Listen, you don't have to pretend you're excited about having a baby. We weren't figuring on a kid right now, and it's a shock. Listen, I wasn't exactly overjoyed when I began to suspect I was pregnant.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Life Is Like A Train But We Have To Become Engine Which Controls The Train
~ Unknown
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.
~ Pam Brown
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
~ Pam Brown
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD
~ Pam Grout
As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other's lives better by our own hands. Yes, yes, yes—this is possible.
~ Pam Grout
Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.
~ Pam Grout
We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That's the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts. But it isn't dead yet and neither are we. Are we going to drop the earth off at the vet, say goodbye at the door, and leave her to die in the hands of strangers? We can decide, even now, not to turn our backs on her in her illness. We can still decide not to let her die alone.
~ Pam Houston
if climate change is our bubonic plague, that makes us the fleas and rats.
~ Pam Houston
And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands.
~ Pam Houston
We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That's the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts.
~ Pam Houston
Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,
~ Pam Jenoff
You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.
~ Pam Jenoff
Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something," he said with determination
~ Pam Jenoff