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.
Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
