Should Quotes

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

History should be written as philosophy.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There's no reason why I should retire.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.