Should I Quotes

• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to benefit the nation in any way? We should come out of the 'Why should I care' attitude and dedicate ourselves to the nation's progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Attitude, Progress

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• I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Warrior, Thinking, Doubt

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• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

  Barbara Bush

  Beautiful, War, Mean

  Interview on "Good Morning America", March 18, 2003.

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• "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

  Coco Chanel

  Want, Young, Should

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• Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

  Patrick Henry

  War, Peace With God, Moments

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• Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Arms, Seven, Should

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.36, Macmillan

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• How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

  Saul Bellow

  Should, Humans, Knows

  Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.515, Penguin UK

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• . . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

  Louis L'Amour

  Moving, Goal, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.166, Bantam

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• What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

  George Eliot

  Achieve, Should, Resolve

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.762, Xist Publishing

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• The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

  Grace Paley

  Kids, Men, Thinking

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• The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Weekend

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• I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Perfect, Laughing

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• Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

  William Butler Yeats

  Simple, Men, Fire

  "No Second Troy" l. 11 (1910)

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

  Caroline Knapp

  Smart, Ambitious, Enough

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• In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Grieving, Years

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

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• I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!

  Eva Jessye

  Music, Commitment, Thinking

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• When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Editing, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Important, Age

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 250), 1972.

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

  Tom Peters

  Sorry, Business, Years

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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• Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Brazil, Taxation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Desire

  Sonnet 57

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• Should I really care what kind of beer frogs recommend?

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Beer

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.59, Main Street Books

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