Should Quotes - Page 189

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of an odd situation because he's a former deputy attorney general as well as head of the FBI so he may have trouble keeping on only the investigator hat forgetting that he's a former deputy attorney general. So it's not a good thing, it's a distraction so I think we should just ignore it because there's nothing there so get on with the business of last week of the election.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

Good things should be praised.

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

If you be King, why should not I succeed?

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.