Quotes About Responsibility

The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent'. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for.

When you point a finger at someone, always remember that three fingers are pointing back at you.

The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,

George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won't be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. They'll do the state's work for it by constantly uploading their locations, interests, food preferences, restaurant choices, political ideas, and hobbies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites. We are our own secret police.

Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can't have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not 'concerned citizens', it's our responsibility and ours alone," McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

When Lascelles suggested to George VI that he give Hardinge six months' leave to reflect on his position, the king replied, "Certainly not—he might come back.")

In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I believe that every artist has a responsibility to use their platform to raise awareness about issues that are important to them.

There is a responsibility when you're representing a historical figure, and you want to be as accurate as possible, but you also want to breathe life into the character.

There was dead silence when we finished the scene. Then Bill spoke. "You know," he said, "sometimes in life, we THINK before we speak." I was mortified. But now I knew three things about acting: pick up your cues, don't wear hats, and think before you speak.

Have ye never wondered if Baron Arundel's death was due in part to the aid he offered us?" Duncan frowned as he weighed the notion in his mind. "'Tis possible." "'Tis more than possible." Gavin looked Duncan straight in the eye. "We will aid her and her son. The McLendons pay their debts. Always.

Here was my choice: I could continue down the well-trod path upon which I'd been running for so very long and pass along the inheritance like a baton, as blithely as I did my light hair and fair skin. My daughter could do her best to outrun it... Or I could slow down, catch my breath, and look mindfully for a new path. There had to be another way and I owed it to my daughter to find it.

Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand - fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated - in an effort to keep my mother's secret buried.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.