Quotes About Responsibility

Forget about registering guns, register six-packs. Each can of beer takes you closer to shooting yourself in the foot.

He and Homer were laughing. That was a bad sign. It meant the men were getting along, and she would get stuck doing all the work.

Contrary to popular belief, no one owes you anything. Even your folks have met their obligations once you reach eighteen," Dani pointed out. "You could always refuse." "Not really." Red flooded Starr's face. "We have three choices. The dorm. You and Spence. Or no more money from our parents." "Yep." Ivy snickered. "They have us by the checkbook.

The only employees in the building who had been excused where those who had hall monitoring duty.

Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

We didn't create society for men, we created it to stop men.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." And remember the four things that never return: the spoken word, the speeding arrow, the wasted life, and the neglected opportunity.

The future never takes care of itself; it is taken car of, shaped, molded, and colored by the present. Our todays are what our yesterdays made them; our tomorrows must inevitably be the product of our todays.

As I preach to my congregation every Sunday when it comes to staying afloat financially and living within your means, there is nothing easy about easy payments. Learn to say the words "I can't afford it." —Kirbyjon Caldwell

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Do the right thing. Do your job and forget about everything else—and that means the press. Today's headline wraps tomorrow's garbage.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Bad judges, lousy cops, greedy lawyers, lazy prosecutors, mediocre teachers, and incompetent bureaucrats are inevitable. When they happen, they should be weeded out and sent back to school to learn something about moral courage and the Golden Rule.

Have you ever stopped to consider the number of choices you make daily Paradoxically speaking, every time you have a choice to make and you don't make it, by default, you are making a choice not to make a choice, which is, of course, a choice. You have no choice in the matter. This is an important question because the more conscious you are about your choices, the more likely it is you will end up where you want to be at the end of your stay on this planet.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the home.

And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

The schools are there to teach your kids to read, write, and add – skills they will need if they are going to apply for and wisely invest their unemployment checks one day.

10. Medicaid patients who bitch about $1 copay, then go up front and buy cigarettes & beer.