Quotes About Responsibility

He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.

people who keep dogs . . . are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .

When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.

It's not the sort of thing romantics wish to hear, but I found that in the end, love must be a kind of discipline. If we love only with our feelings, we're sunk—we may feel love one day and something quite other the next. Soon after he came to live with me—he was eleven years old at the time—I realized I must learn to love with my will, not my feelings.

When you go to court, you're putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!!

If my client had not distracted his wife from her moments of unhappiness so that he could stay calm, she would have had the opportunity to learn to handle her own moods.

as for the Clinton administration, it pursued a high moralistic policy for which it was totally unwilling to accept responsibility. It insisted particularly in the UN, on tougher action against the Serbs, but refused to support it with American ground troops.

Dat is het grootste van dieren, dat ze niet kunnen grienen. Als je huilt heb je een slecht geweten, dan ben je in gebreke gebleven. Een dier stelt nooit teleur. Een dier valt niks te verwijten. Je kan je alleen een klootzak voelen dat je zo'n sentimentele etter bent geweest.

Leven moet geleefd worden. Je moet er ernst van maken anders ben je een plas die verdampt.

God doesn't care about drinking beer. All those rules were made up by people trying to prevent you from doing something really wrong. Drunks make stupid decisions. If you don't drink, there's less chance of doing something stupid.

As much as choice could sometimes be a burden, not having one was far worse.

Life has a way of uncovering secrets, usually at the worst moment possible. How we choose to deal with them is what makes us better than those who kept them in the first place.

It was a bunch of explanations but not an excuse. The bottom line is that no matter why I did the things I did, I always had a choice in doing them.

She didn't like gardening or cleaning, so she wasn't about to have 'shit that needed watering or dusting' around her place.

in except the medical staff.

Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again!

choice increases the likelihood of compliance. It's not the choice itself that's important, it's the feeling that the person has a choice that makes a difference in behavior.

My husband works all week, so on weekends, he tells me he doesn't want to "deal with" our sons. I'm amazed that he doesn't notice that I'm basically radiating hatred all the time.

I'm emptying the dishwasher and Brian starts grabbing my boobs. I've had kids pawing me all day long, so that's not hot. If you want some action, help me unload the dishes, idiot.

it's not children who extinguish the flame of desire—it's the adults who fail to keep the spark alive.

And the key to locking in lasting participation down the line, he says, is to emphasize chores as a group effort by using the word "we"—"We need to get this done" or "Let's clean up the living room.

I know, and I appreciate that," says Dinah, getting up to extract a container of yogurt from the fridge, which completes her improvised dinner—"but I have to say that I am really, really tired of having to ask you to do things.

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...