Should Quotes - Page 44

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.

Fashion should be a game.

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

You should always remember that you were chosen to be on this earth.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.

I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.