Should Have Quotes - Page 12

• Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

  John Gay

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 1, sc. 8

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• As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

  John Newton

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.140, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Destiny, Men, Every Man

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• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Home, Naps, Long

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• A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

  Voltaire

  Science, Discovery, Sublime

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

  Don Marquis

  Children, Father, Men

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.55, Anchor

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• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  George Aiken

  Wise, Land, People

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• I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Chance

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• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Law

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

  James Montgomery

  Hymns, Unity, Progress

  "The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an Introductory Essay". Book by James Montgomery, 1825.

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• I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

  David Myers

  Reading, Ideas, Cooking

  Source: www.signaturemagazine.com.au

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• I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.

  Steven Conrad

  Thinking, Challenges, Feelings

  Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.

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• I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

  Andrew Bird

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Artist, People, Done

  "'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

  Edward Norton

  Speaks French, Forever, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Men, Yoke

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Years

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Law, Liberty

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• Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

  Mike Thompson

  Firsts, United States, Missions

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.

  Will Packer

  Drama, Philosophy, Comedy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Finding Yourself, Stills

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.

  Val Kilmer

  Couple, Directors, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, People, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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