Should Quotes

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.