Joseph Heller Quotes

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Joseph Heller

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Responsibility

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Build

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Responsibility
  • Poetry

• But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Methinks in those thy coward fearsThere might, perchance, a courage be,That fails in these the manlier years;Courage to let the courage sink,Itself a coward base to think,Rather than not for heavenly lightWait on to show the truly right.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Coward

• I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Heart
  • Nuts
  • Spurt

• The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Result

• I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Responsibility
  • Negative
  • Yossarian