Shall Quotes

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.