William Butler Yeats Quotes

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

What do you expect me to do about it?

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

You need to fix it, Mr. Dudley, or we will get someone who will.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Responsibility is always about concrete action.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

Old Time the clock-setter.