Shall Quotes

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.