Responsible Quotes

• I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Fathers

• If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Deep
  • Animals
  • Particular

• Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Failure
  • Criticism
  • Battle

• I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Company
  • Demand

• I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

  

  Georges Duhamel
  • God
  • Respect
  • Responsible

• I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.

  

  Georgiana Burne-Jones
  • Help
  • I Believe
  • Art Of Living

• I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Sorry
  • Responsible
  • Raised

• You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • World
  • Know
  • Weak

• Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Free
  • Right
  • Virtue

• Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

  

  Benjamin Hawkins
  • Responsible
  • Congress
  • Citizens

• It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Angry

• If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Responsible
  • Error
  • Shortstop

• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Artist
  • Audience

• Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That didn't happen, but she is responsible for the all-out aggression with which most of the top players play. All the low trajectory shots hit with just moderate amounts of spin and traveling into the corners like heat-seeking missiles? You guessed it, Monica's to blame.

  

  Dave McPherson
  • Player
  • Blame
  • Aggression

• I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Responsible
  • Investigation
  • Condemn

• There are times when, for many years, I've been irrelevant - and it was OK! I had my moment. No one is responsible for anyone else's dreams. I don't need a babysitter. I just needed to know that I could do this. I just think that my happiest time or my best time, upon reflection, is that I had the courage to do this.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Courage
  • Dreams
  • Responsible

• Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Film
  • Story
  • Actor

• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Attitude
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Guy
  • Wonder
  • Leader

• Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Together
  • Suffering
  • Politics

• My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Children
  • Duty
  • Guiding

• We are making our case that we're fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming. And we think we've got on the merits the best ticket of the three parties, if you will, and so, you know, we'd like to get there.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Welcome

• I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.

  

  Ethan Peck
  • Family
  • Quality
  • Born

• My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Issues
  • Responsible
  • Dads

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