Should I Quotes - Page 11

• Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

  Marie Laurencin

  Girl, Art, Beer

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• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Mean, People

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• Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.

  Daniel Nielsen

  Funny, Funeral, Should

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• Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

  Rumi

  Strong, Life Changing, Hands

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• If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational Life, Long, May

  "Hymns of the church militant". Book by Anna Bartlett Warner, 1858.

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• We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

  Phil Jones

  Years, Data, Trying

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• Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, Moving, People

  "Malala Yousafzai addresses Harvard audience" by Brian MacQuarrie, www.bostonglobe.com. September 28, 2013.

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• I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

  Ruth Rendell

  Writing, People, Letters

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• The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I sacrifice myself? I am a scientist, I am supposed to be working on scientific things, so I don't need to put myself at risk by talking about these possibilities." And I have said that perhaps I'm just stubborn... I have said "I don't like anybody to tell me what to do or to think, except Mrs. Pauling."

  Linus Pauling

  Sacrifice, Science, Thinking

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• Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

  Doc Holliday

  Cheating, Cowboy, Should

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• I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Uncles, Animal

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• Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

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• Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  School, Men, Understanding

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Prey

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• What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life, Long, Should

  Joseph Brodsky, “May 24, 1980”

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• I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

  William Shakespeare

  Depression, Grief, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

  Joe Louis

  Boxing, Should, Aria

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• Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

  Tony Galento

  Boxing, Pay, Should

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• If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

  Svetlana Kuznetsova

  Morning, Night, Eight

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• Which Seat Should I Take?

  Rebecca Black

  Song, Should, Pops

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• Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

  Jessica Zafra

  Miserable, Should, I Can

  Jessica Zafra (1995). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Way, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.208

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