Quotes About Acting Responsibly

#1. The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly.

David McCullough

#2. The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

Claes Oldenburg

#3. Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Jane Goodall

#5. The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Stewart Brand

#6. Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Michelle Williams

#7. To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

Shubha Vilas

#8. I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

Jane Leeves

#9. I have been on a diet since 1962.

Mary Quant

#10. Desire. You can't fight that; you can only fight yourself after it hits you ...

Vee Hoffman

#11. You know sometimes you have to lose who you are before you can find who you are.

Rachel Goodman

#12. Well, you always remember people who hurt your feelings.

Kristan Higgins

#13. Captain, I said, letting the surprise I felt filter into my voice. It was weird how every time I said the word captain, I wanted to tack on a Jack Sparrow at the end.

Darynda Jones

#14. Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

Katherine Rundell

#15. Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Caleb Carr

#16. I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#17. Mind is not really 'inside' us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity.

Colin Wilson

#18. The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

G. Willow Wilson