Should Quotes - Page 79

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Why should I be worried about death?

Life should be touched, not strangled.

The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.