Top 1200 Responsible Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Completing annual appropriations bills would be an important step in responsible federal budgeting.

Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

I always hear people saying, "If I can just help one person, or if I can just stop one person from doing what I did." I don't think one person is enough. I feel you can help more than one person, help as many as you can. That's something that I would like to leave as my legacy: That I helped a lot of people and made some people make better decisions after looking at the decisions I've made in my life.

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

Do not tell me you don’t know you’re pretty. If so, I’m about to lose all faith in mankind. You don’t want to be responsible for that.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

The tradition of Umuganda is a beautiful and inspiring one. It connects people to their surrounds and creates a responsible community.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

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

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.