Should Have Quotes - Page 35

• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Sleep, Lasts

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
  But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
  ...beer is good enough for me.

  Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

  Allan Rock

  Country, Gun, People

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• I should have had the pickle.

  Preston Sturges

  Pickles, Should, Last Words

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• Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Children, Gun

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.

  Derek J. de Solla Price

  Dog, Children, Science

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• This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Forever

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• Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Winning, Firsts

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.

  Elizabeth Evatt

  Leadership, Believe, Home

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• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Black And White, Racism, Groups

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Paris

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• All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Source, Should

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clever, True Power, Expression

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• When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

  David Roberts

  War, Science, Impact

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• Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, Attention

  "Netanyahu on peace". Speech at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University, Israel, www.aljazeera.com. November 24, 1989.

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• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  Gavyn Davies

  Running, Cheerleading, Cheerleader

  "Gavyn Davies: role of BBC chairman 'devalued'" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Real, Home

  "The Equal Rights Amendment Falters, and Phyllis Schlafly Is the Velvet Fist Behind the Slowdown". people.com. April 28, 1975.

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• No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Feminist, Should

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• For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on? Where am I? I just walked out of a flower bed in this scene as well.... I was standing in the flower bed and then walked out of it and then stopped and looked confused.... If I didn't have contact lenses on, that was a really spectacular look I just did.... I should have had million thoughts, like Hamlet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Confused, Flower

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• I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

  Henry Adams

  War, Character, Men

  "American Heritage" Magazine, December 1955.

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• Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Should

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• Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Giving, Understanding

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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