“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.
Source: Clockwork Angel
“I think what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. I still believe that.”
At the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series in Sarasota https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/articles/2017/1/23/dick-cheney-sarasota (January 2017)
2010s, 2017
“I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”
2003
Notes: in reference to the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
At the battle of Copenhagen, Ignoring Admiral Parker's signal to retreat, holding his telescope up to his blind eye, and proceeding to victory against the Danish fleet. (2 April 1801); as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 7
1800s
Context: To leave off action"? Well, damn me if I do! You know, Foley, I have only one eye,— I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes…”
[8538@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990