“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
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“One cuts and chooses and shifts and pastes, and sometimes tears off and begins again.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Source: 1940s, Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946), p. 15
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
“But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) French playwright
On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir ! <br class="br"> Cecile or The School for Fathers http://books.google.com/books?id=MeWmNXPF2T0C&q=&quot;But+one+cannot+weep+for+the+entire+world+it+is+beyond+human+strength+One+must+choose&quot;&pg=PA186#v=onepage (1954)
“Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Rumer Godden (1907–1998) English writer
Source: The Dolls' House
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Similar quotes are found, unattributed, from as early as 1899 https://books.google.com/books?id=lC81AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA32&dq=%22two+evils%22+both+pessimist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIuveP5uz0yAIVBVqICh0GRQQJ#v=onepage&q=%22two%20evils%22%20both%20pessimist&f=false. First clear attribution to Wilde was not until 1977 https://books.google.com/books?id=eOcWAQAAMAAJ&q=oscar+wilde+%22two+evils%22&dq=oscar+wilde+%22two+evils%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCWoVChMIjMLEuO30yAIVBpSICh0c4Qi9 <br class="br">Disputed