Accountability Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image “To be a tourist is to escape accountability.” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accountability Responsibility Tourists
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“To become a tourist assumes a certain vulnerability, to wear the wrong shoes and not know the right times for meals. To drive too… — Edmond Manning Copy Share Image
Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“TO BE A TOURIST is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we… — Richard Todd Copy Share Image
“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to escape accountability.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Transparency pertains to impartial behavior, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Inculcate transparency in attitude and experience a life free of controversy and blame — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it… — Bill Bullard Copy Share Image
The American people deserve accountability over wasteful spending, and we accomplish that by prioritizing taxpayer dollars in a responsive and responsible manner. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
