Should Quotes - Page 101

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

If I'm drinking I can either be the nicest guy ever or I'm the guy you should leave alone.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

Little opportunities should be improved.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

I know when I should get good and when I should get bad.

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.