Responsible Quotes - page 32

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically. (Eve Ensler)
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. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person. View quote
Esther Perel
I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got. View quote
Gisele Bundchen
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached. View quote
Eben Alexander
Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role. View quote
Yehuda Berg
TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
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. (Karen Marie Moning)
Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart. View quote
L.J. Smith
Authorities in Rabat believe that if we create a Moroccan character, even in a work of fiction, we are responsible for the image of Moroccan women. View quote
Leila Slimani
A single tiny cell had decided the fate of a population pressed so close to the ultimate limit of the planet's resources that there was no margin for error. Facing such risks, how could any sane and responsible ruling group dare to demand still more mouths to cry for food? It was a shabby, horrible way to run a world. View quote
Lester del Rey
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. View quote
Lisa Lutz
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
The responsible choice? Steer clear of business with Iran. View quote
Mike Pompeo
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. S. View quote
Dalai Lama
What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains? View quote
Jo Nesbo
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation! View quote
Joyce Meyer
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.' (Joyce Meyer)
Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants. View quote
Lauren Conrad
The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that's prepared, but right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined, and we've got to start realizing that we can secure and protect ourselves, but also be responsible in the way that we do that," Booker said. And it's not unpatriotic to say that we're spending too much money. In fact, to me, that's the patriotic thing to say. View quote
Cory Booker
Every technology creates good and bad. You can sit here and say, "AI is really bad, we shouldn't have AI" - that's nonsense. We have to figure out how to use it in a responsible way, that's our job. View quote
Michael Dell
For me, the most important thing in education is to instill a sense of responsibility. Because when you are responsible for your words, it will be very easy for you to live in this life later. If you live all the time with the claim that everyone owes you, it is very stupid. View quote
Chulpan Khamatova