Quotes About Responsibility

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they had been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.

So here is what this movement of millions should do, for a start: announce and enforce the prohibition. Damage and destroy new CO2-emitting devices. Put them out of commission, pick them apart, demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep on investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.

Disease, in the Gandhian view, results from impurity and must be allowed to do its cleansing work, and the same goes for extreme weather and earthquakes: with unusual consistency, the mahatma preached that victims of such events had it coming.

If we cannot even get rid of the most preposterously unnecessary emissions, how are we going to begin moving towards zero?

Isn't suffering unearned by the victims precisely what is so morally repugnant about the unfolding crisis? If so, why make it a virtue?

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes penned the majority opinion, which included these immortal words: It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.… Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

We may feel like victims but wonder if we are possibly coconspirators. At the very least, we selected a partner with these faults. Might we have also permitted these faults or even fostered them?

A pure breed of steed is steered sheerly by the shadow of the lash, but even the spur cannot stir a mount of trash.

David?" Dave had been home five minutes when he heard his mom come in the front door and call his name. He was upstairs. In the bathroom. She called again. "David, answer me!" To be more specific, Dave was sitting on the toilet. "DAVID! ANSWER ME!" Dave knew that tone of voice. He had to do something right away. So he reached over and banged on the inside of the bathroom door. It was the wrong move. His mom was up those front stairs and

be nicer to you than she is to some other kid, then that's not your fault. That's the teacher's fault. Because a teacher's not supposed to be nicer to one kid than she is to another, right?

Truth is, Dad, I don't blame Judge Parker," he said quietly. "I mouthed off pretty bad in court. He could've given me sixty days in jail, or even ninety. I've got no gripe with him. It was my own fault—all of it.

very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.

By being published, any author's words cease to be his own, but rather belong to his reader.