Should Quotes

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.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.