20s Gangster Quotes & Sayings

Responsibility is a unique concept ... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you ... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. — Hyman G. Rickover

There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons. — Celeste De Blasis

Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good. — Emerson Hough

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work. — Walt Whitman

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. — Aristotle.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent. — Frances Mayes