Sole Responsibility Quotes

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.

Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.

I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

It’s the toughest decision a president has to make, by far. There is no passing the buck, no sharing the responsibility. It is a terribly lonely decision.

For me, it's always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the 'exclusive to Ring of Honor' contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough.

If America wins they win together; if it fails the President fails alone.

We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

I have only my own burden to bear.

There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life.