Should Quotes - Page 162

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that.

Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

You should never take more than you give

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

Why should I be limited by my own biography?

I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.