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Quotes About Responsibility

Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .
~ Elmore Leonard
He touched the funneled brim of his Stetson with two fingers and held open his ID case in the other hand, showing his star. He said, 'Raylan Givens, U.S. Marshals Service.
~ Elmore Leonard
He made me understand that there could be no release from their service until the day I died. He explained, Your father gave it to you as his inheritance, and you will pass it onto your children. They will curse you, but our long arm will reach them nevertheless, generation after generation.
~ Emile Habiby
En sonra, birinci savaÅŸ konseyini, bir san??a gizli kalan bir belgeye dayanarak hüküm giydirdiÄŸi için hukuku çiÄŸnemekle suçluyorum. İkinci savaÅŸ konseyini de üstten gelen emre uyarak, bir suçluyu, suçunu bile bile temize ç?kar?p a??r adli suç iÅŸlemekle, böylece birinci konseyin yasaya ayk?r? davran???n? örtbas etmekle suçluyorum.
~ Émile Zola
Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!
~ Émile Zola
On ne garde pas ainsi son mal sur la conscience, jusqu'à en étouffer.
~ Émile Zola
Then there was a little silence. Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either. You often notice that sort of silence when someone has said something it ought not to—and everyone else holds its tongue and waits for the one who oughtn't to have said it is sorry.
~ Émile Zola
Est-ce que ça me regarde ? Est-ce que je n'avais pas à mettre mes haricots sur le feu ?...
~ Émile Zola
Fransa'n?n en büyük romanc?lar?ndan birinin kopard??? Üstelik bu insanlar uyuyabiliyorlar, eÅŸleri ve çocuklar? var, onlar? seviyorlar! ç??l???n? her okuyuÅŸlar?nda yürekleri s?zlayacak, kendi kendilerinden, kendi türlerinden utanacak, gerçek adalet özlemini bir kez daha duyacaklar.
~ Émile Zola
God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
And what great thing have you done? asked the peasant. We? Oh, nothing. Then to the oven! he replied. The
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
~ Emily Bronte
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
~ Emily Bronte
I remember the master, before he fell into a doze, stroking her bonny hair - it pleased him rarely to see her gentle - and saying - 'Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?' And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered, 'Why cannot you always be a good man, father?
~ Emily Bronte
what misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it?  I'd rather he suffered less, if I might cause his sufferings and he might know that I was the cause.  Oh, I owe him so much. 
~ Emily Bronte
You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
~ Emily Bronte
No, come here, Miss Catherine, now and then: not every morning, but once or twice a week.' The father launched towards his son a glance of bitter contempt.
~ Emily Bronte
Yo no te he destrozado el corazón; tú sola te lo has destrozado, y al hacerlo has destrozado también el mío
~ Emily Bronte
Porque ni las miserias, ni la degradación, ni la muerte, ni nada de lo que Dios o Satanás pudieran infligirnos habría podido separarnos; lo hiciste tú, por tu propio pie. No he sido yo quien te ha roto el corazón, te lo has roto tú misma y de paso me has roto el mío.
~ Emily Bronte
Joseph, hazte cargo del caballo del señor Lockwood; y sube vino. «Supongo que la plantilla de empleados domésticos se reduce a uno —pensé al oír aquella orden múltiple—. No es de extrañar que la hierba crezca entre los adoquines y que el ganado sea el único que poda los setos.»
~ Emily Bronte
ella ha debido casarse con este patán creyendo que no hay otros que valgan más que él. Es lamentable. Y yo debo procurar que, por culpa mía, no vaya a arrepentirse de su elección.»
~ Emily Bronte
Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?' And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered - 'Why cannot you always be a good man, father?
~ Emily Bronte
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
~ Emily Bronte
You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying.
~ Emily Bronte