Quotes About Responsibility

freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Si yo errare este papel, no me podré quejar de él, de mí me podré quejar.

Oh, those stars, Those stars, that too far up from human blame To clear themselves, or careless of the charge, Still bear upon their shining shoulders all The guilt men shift upon them!

Quién quería tener un perro así? ¿Qué hueco afectivo emocional venía a llenar semejante monstruo en una casa? ¿Era metáfora de qué? ¿Prolongación de qué? ¿Doble animal, nahual, de quién? ¿Por qué carajo me traía esta mina a su novio convertido en perro y me dejaba cuidándolo un ratito?

Y claro que no tenés tiempo, no lo tenés acá, porque tu tiempo está en otro lugar, con tu mujer y tu hijo. Sos de otro tiempo.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Every speech has a job to do, and no matter who you are, pope, president, poet or pipe layer, if you're giving a speech you have to understand what its job is and work to make sure it's done.

Again: What does it mean when your first act is to break the laws of your new country? What does it mean when you know you are implicitly supported in lawbreaking by that nation's ruling elite? What does it mean when you know your new country doesn't even enforce its own laws? What does it mean when you don't even have to become an American once you join America?

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What's the point of what you do?

Activists are correct in saying that the only thing that 100 percent of rapes have in common is a rapist. You can shroud women from head to toe, forbid them alcohol, imprison them in their homes—and there will still be rape.

Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.

Things would have turned out differently if he'd been wearing shoes. A shoeless man is a defenseless man. A shoeless man can't be held responsible for his actions.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.

But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

your absence, but with my cousin in such very poor health still, I feel I cannot leave her, so…' The old