Should Quotes

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.