Should Quotes - Page 8

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.

Life should be great rather than long.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.