Responsible Quotes - Page 37

• I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't... and who lives, and who dies.

  Christopher Pike

  Party, Tired, Missions

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• I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.

  Mariano Rivera

  Grateful, Heart, Kids

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Mistake, Responsibility

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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• A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Men, Fifty, Faces

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• Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

  Danny Hillis

  Coffee, Orange, Consciousness

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• It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Lawyer, Argument, Made

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• Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

  Jeff Landry

  White, House, President

  "La. Rep. Refuses Obama Invitation to be "Lectured to" at GOP Debt Meeting" by L.A. Holmes, www.foxnews.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

  Serge Lang

  Answers

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

  Alex Borstein

  Fun, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

  Robert Torricelli

  Loss, Majority, United States

  "Torricelli drops out of N.J. race". www.cnn.com. October 1, 2002.

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• Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

  H. L. Mencken

  Class, People, Leader

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• To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Body

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• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

  Robert Updegraff

  Work, Adversity, Complaining

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• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

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• Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Sex, Sin, Politician

  "Bishop: Lawmakers 'morally complicit' in sins of same-sex couples" by Ray Long, www.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Wall, Integrity, Faithful

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• My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

  Orel Hershiser

  Philosophy, Generosity, Giving

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• Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Mean, Oxford, Use

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• But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Environmental, Guarantees

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.51, Counterpoint

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• I don't think it's hubris for me to say I'm a Trek fan. So, I don't treat Trek fans as somebody who's separate than I am. The only thing that separates them is, I'm one of the people responsible for the story in this movie and they're not. But we're all Trek fans. I can hang.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, People, Fans

  "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

  John Travolta

  People, Decision, Easier

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Ears, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Responsibility, Artist, Drawing

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• Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

  David Lloyd George

  Children, Work, Men

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• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Artist, World

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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