Should Quotes - Page 149

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it.

I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.

I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

I really learned that you should seize the moment; you should be present in the moment.

A few people have said I should let you win