Should Quotes

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.