Should Quotes - Page 124

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

His head just disappeared into his shoulders.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.

One should read Borges more.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.