Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?
Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.
The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.
You deserve whoever governs you. . . Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.
You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.
Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.
As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. . . . There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.