Quotes About Responsibility

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.' Theodore Roosevelt On

The Parent Survival Kit: Limits and Consequences

Most people have no idea how to pray for you. If you want them to pray something more than, "Be with [fill in the blank] as she works with lost people in [fill in the blank]," then you need to teach them how to pray. Teaching them how to pray effectively is your responsibility.

Most people already know what they are supposed to do, but they choose not to do it.

If you hang with dogs, then of course you must get treated like dogs.

grown women don't make mistakes; they make decisions!

Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts

Fail not in this charge at your peril.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

John cursed himself. Or rather, he cursed the past version of himself for so thoughtlessly screwing over the current version of himself.

A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.

Here's what's going to happen: You're going to die and you're going to stand at the gates of judgement and you're going to ask God what was the meaning of it all, and God will say, 'I created the universe, you little shit. It was up to YOU to give it meaning'.

Do they know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think its their own choice?

I said, "And then, when those all-American Joes get out and some of them fucking turn into monsters? What happens then?" Amy said, "Then we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered. You take the choice in front of you, and then you keep picking the non-murder choices as long as you can.

John said, "When they get here, let me do all the talking." I said, "Amy, when they get here, I want you to do all of the talking. I'll be busy restraining John.

You'll know that humans aren't cut out for anything. We cut ourselves out. Slowly, with a rusty knife. Because otherwise, here's what's going to happen: you're going to die and you're going to stand at the gates of judgment and you're going to ask God what was the meaning of it all, and God will say, 'I created the universe, you little shit. It was up to you to give it meaning.

you're going to die and you're going to stand at the gates of judgment and you're going to ask God what was the meaning of it all, and God will say, 'I created the universe, you little shit. It was up to you to give it meaning.

humans aren't cut out for anything. We cut ourselves out. Slowly, with a rusty knife. Because otherwise, here's what's going to happen: you're going to die and you're going to stand at the gates of judgment and you're going to ask God what was the meaning of it all, and God will say, 'I created the universe, you little shit. It was up to you to give it meaning.

here's what's going to happen: you're going to die and you're going to stand at the gates of judgment and you're going to ask God what was the meaning of it all, and God will say, 'I created the universe, you little shit. It was up to you to give it meaning.

The thing about not having parents is you don't have anyone to tell you you're heading down a path paved with grossly inaccurate expectations of what the world owes you.

And I see her and she'd look up at me with those green eyes and I think, hey, saving the world, that's Hollywood bullshit. The best I can do is save this little bit of the world, this little corner that me and this girl stand in.

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice?

The truth was, I didn't feel sorry for Billy. He teased a dog and got his fingers bitten off. Fuck him. Fuck everybody.