I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
