Jerry Garcia Quotes

What do you expect me to do about it?

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

If you can, you must.

…it has fallen to you to do a dirty job which your predecessors ought to have done before you.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

A necessary act incurs no blame.

I'm not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year.

I don't enjoy cricket. I just take it as a priority... something that I have to do.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

When there's a thing you have to do, you have to do it.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.