Ken Griffey Jr. Quotes

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

Your either accused of being dictatorial or of being weak—occasionally both at the same time. You just have to take your pick.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

I take risks sometimes, and it's not the best choice. I have to take that kind of risk to become one of the best players in the world. If that's what I want to be, I cannot just play simple.

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who were quite free and who were surrounded by people who were not free. The people who wrote the Declaration of Independence were ventriloquists really. The obsession with freedom makes no sense when it applies to them.

Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22