Quotes About Responsibility

Every war, every crime against humanity among the damned of the Earth is supposed to be somewhat our fault and ought to lead us to confess our guilt, to pay endlessly for being a member of the bloc of wealthy nations.

L'avenir est notre affaire

Aimer aux yeux des enfants c'est veiller. Veiller le sommeil, apaiser les craintes, consoler les pleurs, soigner les maladies, caresser la peau, la laver, l'essuyer, l'habiller.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job .

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.

Every technology has its original sin.

It's all too easy to hit the "send" button before we've really had the chance to think about the effect on the audience.

In both designing and evaluating processes, these teams would pay particular attention to passing the "process baton." Processes should be designed to facilitate the exchange of the baton, the movement of responsibility from one person to another.

I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.

What do you do when you are falling? Do you reach out and try to grab for support? If you aren't careful, you will pull others down with you. Unless you are very careful.

In the real world, the Sergeant was tired of worrying and sick of cocoa. He was disturbed by feelings in his mind that he was not really himself at all. Several times he half-started out of his chair on an impulse to get out on the streets to ask the first person he met: "Where were you at ten past three on the morning of December the thirteenth, nineteen fifty-four"; just to prove to himself that he was still the Sergeant and that he knew how to do his duty.

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

Leave your heart open to Divine guidance, not passively as a leaf upon the river, but as a navigator on that river who may flow with the lovely depth and swiftness of the current yet who also takes responsibility for his own craft.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now.... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but. .. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm," I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.