Should Quotes - Page 119

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Even the old should learn.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.