Responsible Quotes

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

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.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

I feel very responsible for my brother, and I try and protect him every chance I get.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

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.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

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

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

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

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.