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Quotes About Responsibility

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
~ M.C. Beaton
I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.
~ Moby
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
~ Alexander Crummell
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
~ Keith Richards
It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.
~ Fiona Apple
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
~ Horace
Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!!
~ Anamika Mishra
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine
~ Albert Camus, The Stranger
One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
~ Joyce Maynard
You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.
~ Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask
It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.
~ Pamela Anderson
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
It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
~ Tim O'Brien
Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
~ Charles Spurgeon
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.
~ Emo Philips
Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.
~ Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
~ Wernher von Braun
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!
~ Emily Dickinson
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
~ Glenn T. Seaborg
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
~ John James Audubon
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
~ Tom Lehrer
Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.
~ August Bier