Should Quotes

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.