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Quotes About Responsibility

Mai pensare che la guerra, anche se giustificata, non sia un crimine.
~ Ernest Hemingway
That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half." "I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Those damn .357's are hard to get now because draft-dodging FBI's have to use them to hunt down draft-dodgers," the man said. "But a man has to fire a shot sometime or he doesn't know how he is shooting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
than those damn—Oh hell, I can't even remember the name of them." "You're not supposed to swear when we are around," Thomas Hudson corrected. "I'm sorry, papa," the small boy said. "I can't help it that I'm so damn young. I'm sorry again. I mean so young.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if…he is really smart…he will get a permit to carry one and then drop around to Abercrombie and Fitch and buy himself a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, '''Woodsman model''', with a five-inch barrel and a box of shells. I advise him to get lubricated hollow points to avoid jams and to ensure a nice expansion on the bullet. He might even get several boxes and practice a little…
~ Ernest Hemingway
If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You're going to have things to repent, boy," Mr. John had told Nick. "That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't think if people gambled for what they could afford it would be very interesting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother's breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already.
~ Ernest Hemingway
never asks for whom the bell tolls;it tolls for you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A részeg ember aljasabb, mint akármelyik gonosztevÅ'. A tolvaj, ha éppen nem lop, olyan ember, mint mindenki más. A zsaroló legalább otthon nem folytatja mesterségét. A gyilkos megmossa kezét, amikor hazatér. De milyen a részeg ember? Büdös, és berókáz a saját ágyába, és a szeszben eláznak a legfontosabb szervei.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... that will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ---Ernest Hemingway
~ Ernest Hemingway
Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What
~ Ernest Hemingway
E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I wish I could feed the fish, he thought. He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno, ma ciò che farai in tutti i giorni che verranno dipende da quello che farai oggi.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.
~ Ernest Hemingway
he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
~ Ernest Hemingway