Should Quotes - Page 63

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.