Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat. -Jace, pg.241- - Cassandra Clare People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. - Brooks Atkinson Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source. - Augusten Burroughs Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. - Hillary Clinton The key is taking responsibility and initiative, de...

Be compassionate... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place. - Mitch Albom Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. - Hermann Hesse This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out. - Nicole Richie The point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. - Jay Asher There are some sick and twisted people out there, Alex and maybe I'm one of them but the point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. - Jay Asher When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. - Jay Asher It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change...

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. - Wilfred Burchett My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitudea feeling which increases with the years. - Albert Einstein Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. - Robert A Heinlein As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that...

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. - Jacques Derrida Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world. - Benjamin Hoff

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps? - Cassandra Clare I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms - Cassandra Clare Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility - Friedrich Nietzsche The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. - Emily Greene Balch In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. - James H Breasted The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have i...

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. - Carl Levin For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. - Butch Otter

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility. - Bob Crosby At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility. - Hedda Hopper

In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute. - James Allen Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is. - John Steinbeck Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. - Dalai Lama How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility. - Ted Cruz Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton What must oc...

The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility. - Joe Andrew The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly. - Melissa Bean But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. - Melissa Bean Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party. - Tom Coburn This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Demo...

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. - Robin Cook In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. - Frederica Montseny Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility. - Javier Solana

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. - Donna Brazile I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. - Jim Lehrer To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. - David Mccullough Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. - Charles W Pickering

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it. - Will Estes Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor. - Faith Evans It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know? - Demi Lovato We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development. - Georgios A Papandreou In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland. - Ruud Van Nistelrooy I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from t...

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. - Buzz Aldrin The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. - Neal Boortz The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. - M Scott Peck I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision. - Howard Schultz