Not Passing The Buck Quotes & Sayings

We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over. — Liam Neeson

Being together isn't about a honeymoon. It's about the real you and me. I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings, I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. — Nicholas Sparks

The second building was enormous. Its central corridor looked long enough to stage a hundred-yard-dash in. I contemplated making one. Ever since the Army, big institutions depressed me: channels, red tape, protocol, buck-passing, hurry up and wait. Only now and then you met a man with enough gumption to keep the big machine from bogging down of its own weight. — Ross Macdonald

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love. — Mother Angelica

What end but love, that stares death in the eye?

Sing me a song to make death tolerable, a song
of a man and a woman: the riddle of a man
and a woman. — Joseph N. Riddel

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. — G. M. Trevelyan

What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House. — Eric Bolling

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change. — David Gerrold

Dormitories are even cooler than I thought they would be," Eva said. "They're like a prison, but the sex is worse," Braque said. — J. Ryan Stradal