Quotes About Responsibility

Los libros de historia dicen que los reyes, los duques o los generales son quienes empiezan las guerras. No te lo creas. Las empezamos nosotros, tú y yo. Cada vez que le damos la espalda a alguien, que guardamos silencio, que no nos metemos, que nos portamos bien.

We've made our bed and we must lie in it.

Life deals you the cards. but it is up to us how we play them

Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could.

I still had fifteen cents that I hadn't given to Pa, and I was using it that afternoon to buy candy for my sisters. Abby had her monthlies and was feeling awfully blue. She'd had the cramp something wicked that morning and had to lie down until it passed, and Pa asked me why she wasn't in the barn milking with the rest of us like he always does because he forgets, and then I had to explain and he got mad at me because it made him embarrassed.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Me?' I laughed. 'I'm guilty.

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me." "Woof," I said.

Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter. Think like a woman with three teenage sons who once ran a golf cart into the side of their granddad's house." "Cameron and Sean shouldn't have let me drive," Adam said in his own defense. "I was seven." "You shouldn't have ASKED to drive. You were seven.

My brother is a very bad policeman. So . . . you're coming to school, right?" Doug "Nnnnnnno." Zoey "Come so you can be around people," Doug coaxed. "I don't think you should be alone today." "I think I definitely should." Zoey "Come so I won't worry about you." Doug ;]

Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.

He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her." "I am NOT stalking her." I insisted. "That's where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not realize that I am so responsible-" McGillicuddy snorted. "- might mistake what I am doing for stalking. However, her big brother is with me. Therefore we are protecting her.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

No matter how careful you are"..."there's always going to be a mess, and you're going to have to clean it up afterward.

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask "Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right." My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.

Oh." My dad actually looked sheepish. "It's one o'clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn't realise what was going on in here." "What's going on in here?" Cameron asked suspiciously. "Maturity." My dad backed out of the room and closed the door.

Mr. Rush said to Drew, "I think I see what the matter is. You were the youngest child. The irresponsible black sheep of the Morrow Mafia. Now, without warning, you're Jan Brady." "Who?" Drew asked. "The middle child from The Brady Bunch," I said. "The pretty one?" Drew asked. "No," Mr. Rush and I said together.

You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way.

Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Power is like that; everyone feels it at once.

Ted had the uneasy sense that the child was spinning them out as a way of filling the time, distracting them both from whatever was going on inside the house. And this made her seem much older than she really was, a tiny little woman, knowing, world-weary, too accepting of life's burdens even to mention them.