Being Responsible Quotes - Page 2

• If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

  James M. Buchanan

  Attitude, Cutting, Taxation

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• It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

  Norman Lear

  Change, Making A Difference, Desire

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

  George H. W. Bush

  Perspective, Environmental, Earth

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Responsible, States, Bravo

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• If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease:
  1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue.
  2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture.
  3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally.
  An early statement of Koch's postulates.

  Friedrich Loeffler

  Science, Order, Behaviour

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• No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Suffering, World

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• Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Missing, Responsible

  Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.

  Kanye West

  Hate, Rapper, Water Bottles

  "Kanye West's Water-Bottle Tweet Wins O Music Award". www.mtv.com. April 28, 2011.

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• in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Responsibility, Men, Eternity

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Two

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• Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

  Nicole Richie

  Children, Example, Looks

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• If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Responsible, Spokes

  "Robert Pattinson Interviews on 'GMA,' Jodie Foster Defends Kristen Stewart" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Adventure, Government, Goal

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• Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

  Hope Solo

  Goal, Everyday, Body

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• If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

  Arlen Specter

  Obamacare, Would Be, Want

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• Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

  Max Stirner

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

  Donatella Versace

  Order, Discipline, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

  Wendell Berry

  Discipline, Unity, Together

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.43, Counterpoint

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• I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

  Catherine Marshall

  Heart, Earth, Responsible

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• As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Children, Fighting

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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• I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taste, Responsible, Strain

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Strong Motion: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan

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• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Intention, Responsible

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Growing Up, Community

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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