A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My perspective is that, when you're a kid, if your audience is a group of children or teenagers, you do have some… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
People don't take personal responsibility for their actions or the repercussions of them. This goes tenfold for politics. — Susanna Martinez Copy Share Image
The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost. — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about… — Matt Diaz Copy Share Image
And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge.… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There's a responsibility to the story, but there's also the sense of fun you have. When everybody else leaves, you get to… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material.… — Peggy Lee Copy Share Image
Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It's our responsibility as experienced and successful players to manage our powers in order to be able to give 100 per cent… — Philipp Lahm Copy Share Image
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden… — Edmund Barton Copy Share Image
“Responsibility's cool but there's more things in life like getting your dick rode all fucking night” — Stefan Burnett Copy Share Image
I feel a responsibility to make sure that the voices from our community are heard. I do not feel a responsibility to… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
Just as with the Miss South Africa platform, I understand the responsibility of being Miss Universe and the impact it has on… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility. — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of… — Harold Simmons Copy Share Image
In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember:… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image