Should Quotes

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

Pop stars should not eat.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.