Should Quotes - Page 21

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Why should things be easy to understand?

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

Passion should always trump common sense.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.