Sheryl Crow Quotes

Choose, but don't want.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

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

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause

What I had to do always came before what I wanted to do.

A dream is better than obligation.

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

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

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

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

You don't have to do anything.

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

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.