Must Quotes

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.