Should Quotes

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.