Quotes About Responsibility

Should and would build no bridges

He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother

That mountain can grow awfully heavy sometimes," he sighed, taking a spear and buckler from Rhuarc. "When do you find a chance to put it down awhile?" "When you die," Lan said simply.

that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

You remind me of my uncle Huan. No one could ever pin him down. He liked to gamble, too, and he'd much rather have fun than work. He died pulling children out of a burning house. He wouldn't stop going back as long as there was one left inside. Are you like him, Mat? Will you be there when the flames are high?

If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

Just because one was poor was not a reason – or an excuse – to live without law.

The Dragon Reborn carries the world on his shoulders, Canler," Androl said softly, catching Canler up short. "I don't know why he's left us here, but I'd prefer to assume it's because he thinks we can handle ourselves.

Perrin reached down to the warm hammer at his side. He had thought that responsibility would be another weight upon him. And yet, now that he had accepted it, he actually felt lighter.

the media run everything, yeah, but they shouldn't run the law, too.

the onerous part of being the district attorney was putting up with an exploitative and sensationalizing media and dealing with a myriad of special-interest groups, all of whom thought they were being ignored, or discriminated against, or deserved more, and all of whom knew that they could do his job better than he could. He was also tired of watching incompetent judges and ethically challenged lawyers make a mockery of the system.

Abraham Lincoln: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

True, they (numbers) are our invention and we have free will: but only to act compatibly with the world we've made.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me. ( The Walking Dead #167: A Certain Doom)

I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!

Your future is depends on what you do today, not tomorrow.

Mucha gente se pregunta: "¿Qué va a hacer nuestro gobierno al respecto?", pero a mí me parece que esta actitud es parte de la crisis porque casi todo mundo espera que el gobierno resuelva sus problemas.

In the absence of The King the Warrior becomes a mercenary, the Magician becomes a sophist (able to argue any position and believing in none), and the Lover becomes an addict.

The good king delighted in noticing and promoting good men to positions of responsibility in his kingdom. He held audience, primarily, not to be seen, but to see, admire, and delight in his subjects, to reward them and to bestow honors upon them. [the King]

This means that he has an unconquerable spirit, that he has great courage, that he is fearless, that he takes responsibility for his actions, and that he has self-discipline. Discipline means that he has the rigor to develop control and mastery over his mind and over his body, and that he has the capacity to withstand pain, both psychological and physical.

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

When I am billeted a German home even for one night I go out and search for the chickens and rabbits or pets and give them water and food if possible. Generally the family has pulled out too rapidly to care for such things. I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.