Quotes About Responsibility

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.

Work takes all the time and with it one has no leisure for the republic and his friends.

If you ever mess with my daughter again, it will be the last mistake you make!

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.

Would you want to be judged by people too stupid to get out of jury duty?

If they're still sullen and whiny when they pass nineteen, they probably always will be. Another half century of bitching and moaning about bosses and wives and how the other guys got all the luck. "Riggs. Charlie Riggs.

If you can't keep a promise to a loved one, you probably aren't going to keep the loved one, either.

T-shirt with the slogan "Officer, I Swear to Drunk I'm Not God.

Federal judges are kings and queens. They are appointed for life. No messy elections, no grubbing for lawyers' campaign contributions. They sit on thrones above the lowly members of their kingdom and are served by a royal retinue of law clerks, judicial assistants, court clerks, jury clerks, courtroom deputies, administrators, and, for all I know, court jesters.

undeserved guilt is just another form of indulgent self-pity.

Más vale matar a la primera rata antes de que la casa se llene de ellas.

My desk was covered with little white telephone messages. Office confetti. You think the universe comes to a halt when you are locked into your own little world, but it doesn't. It goes on whether you're in trial or at war or under the surgeon's knife. Or dead.

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us.

Rutherford's view was that if some armed nut decided to take out his frustrations on the congregation, he wanted to be prepared.

five-pound trigger

If we do not step forward, then we will step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Keeping the human race in check must require a lot of multitasking.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Think globally, act locally.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

When Larry Kramer tells Mathilde Krim in Interview about the closeted gay man at the National Institutes of Health who buried the AIDS data for two years, that's when I understand how doomed we were before we ever knew. It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.