Quotes About Responsibility

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

Once mere excuses are allowed, inevitably lesser and lesser excuses will become acceptable, until law itself is gone.

Do what you must, and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you are right, too.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

You tossed him aside for the White Tower. Why should you care if I pick him up?

If anyone could break any rule they chose, do whatever they chose, and escape punishment merely by doing some good to balance it, the world would be chaos.

Fools deserved whatever their foolishness brought.

Even a queen must obey the law she makes, or there is no law.

A man must seek duty, not glory.

Por el nombre de mi madre, desenvainaré cuando me digáis que lo haga y enfundaré cuando me digáis que enfunde. Por el nombre de mi madre, acudiré cuando me llaméis y me iré cuando me digáis que me marche. —Besó la hoja y alzó la mirada hacia ella, expectante.

Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.

When she told Siuan as much, and her reasoning, the taller woman grunted sourly. "Well, I never wanted to be her friend, did I? I tell you, once I gain the shawl, if she ever tries to harm me again, I'll make her pay." "Oh, Siuan," Moiraine laughed, "Aes Sedai do not go about harming one another." But her friend would not be assuaged.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame, she remembered Lini saying once, and laughing while she did. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

He could end it. Only, he could not. He was going to die, perhaps the world would die, but he could not make himself kill another woman. Somehow

he had grown up in the unspoken certainty that a man would put himself at risk to protect a woman as far she allowed; whether he liked her or even knew her was beside the point.

Let any man as wants start carrying a sword, and soon we'd be as bad as everyplace else. I heard what they're like, Mistress, and we don't want that here.

Un soldado que se culpa por la muerte de sus compañeros en la batalla es un necio.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

No need to shriek like a cat," Nynaeve growled, appearing in the stairwell. She was looking back over her shoulder down the stairs, though. "You hold her tight, you hear me?" she shrieked like a cat.

La muerte es más liviana que una pluma, el deber más pesado que una montaña.» Entonces tomó la decisión.

It's always a man's fault." One

there were always five things that needed doing immediately and ten that should have been done yesterday.

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

The hammer could be either a weapon or a tool. Perrin had a choice, just as everyone who followed him had a choice. Hopper had a choice. The wolf had made that choice, risking more in defense of the Light than any human — save Perrin — would ever understand.