Quotes About Responsibility

Watch, for example, how much of our speech is aimed at justifying our actions. We find it almost impossible to act and allow the act to speak for itself.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Oh God, look what you did." "God's away on business, Kas. Talk to me.

And you're going to do that all by yourself?" "If I pray real hard, I'm sure I can get the baby Jesus to watch over me." "You just blew up a church," says Candy. "Okay. The Devil then." "That's more like it.

So, why'd you come back?" " I'm going to kill some people," I tell him. I pour the Jack into the coffee. "Probably a lot of people." The bartender picks up a rag and starts wiping glasses. "Guess someone's got to." "Thanks for understanding." "I figure that at any given time, there's probably three to five percent of the population that are such unrepentant rat-fuck pendejos that they deserve whatever they get.

The five of us are the big brains supposedly in charge of Hell. Really, we're a bunch of second-rate mechanics trying to keep the wheels from coming off a burning gasoline truck skidding toward a school bus full of orphans and kittens.

I say, "I almost forgot. Your car was parked in a two-hour zone and I was afraid you were going to get a ticket, so I gave your car away.

I've got to think about this. I thought Abbot was a stand-up guy, but how well do I know him outside of the few deals we've made? He's the Augur. Power is his business. Everything else is secondary. Including me and a load of nine-to-five civilians downtown. I need to think about this more. But mostly I've got to watch my back. If something happens to me, what happens to Janet and Candy and the others?

No one's going to look out for us but us. We're just bugs on God's windshield. You need to get serious and work with me on this or we're both going to end up in Tartarus.

You killed Buzzy." "Yeah. I'm sorry." "Don't be sorry. I'm glad you did it.

And if he's found guilty?" "Then his fate will be that of all the ignobles.

There's only one way to steal a car and not feel guilty about it, and that's to steal the most expensive car you can find. That way, you know that it carries the maximum insurance possible, so whatever happens, the owner is covered.

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

I'm trying very hard not to think about anything I'm doing. Of all the iffy things I've ever done in my life, I've never had to ditch a body before. While it's giving me a migraine right now, I think the fact that I'm not an expert on corpse disposal says a lot of good things about me and my life choices.

If Christianity is to be discounted as wishful thinking because it removes fear of meaninglessness and annihilation, then secularism should be open to the same charge, since it removes the hated ideas of an absolute superior and of real responsibility.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

couple of minutes in my car, signing it over

I don't much like it when people commit unsavory acts and try to shift the blame onto me.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

have pity upon those hungering ones immediately around you who must find life through your sermon or they will never find it at all. If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice.