Should Quotes - Page 182

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

You should never reveal your true age.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

I saw things that reached a point that I could no longer conscientiously participate with them. And I simply do what I could to allow the public to make a better decision about whether or not these things should continue.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.