Should Quotes - Page 158

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

You should have died when I killed you.