What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
As human beings we are endowed with freedom of choice and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1 400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.
I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink the responsibility laid on my shoulders.