Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Morris

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

Ward Churchill

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

Wangari Maathai

We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

Virginia Postrel

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

W. H. Auden

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

W. H. Auden

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Wayne McGregor

I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

Wayne Dyer

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

Wayne Dyer

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Wayne Dyer

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Wayne Dyer

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

Van Morrison

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

U Thant

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.

Tyra Banks

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Twiggy

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

William Glasser

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

William Arthur Ward

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

William Arthur Ward

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

Wilfred Burchett

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

Stephen Colbert

I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?

Stefan Sagmeister

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

Spencer Bachus

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Tim Tebow

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

Tim Cook

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life...Fortunately, technology gives us the tools to avoid these risks. It is my sincere hope that by using them and by working together, we will.

Tim Berners-Lee

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Tim Berners-Lee

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Thomas Jefferson

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

Thomas Keating

Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.