Must Quotes

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.