Should I Quotes - Page 13

• People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

  George Burns

  Senior, Two, People

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• It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Art, White

  Nation, 23 June 1926

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• "Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

  Steve Pavlina

  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

  Wanda Sykes

  Children, Cancer, Party

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• Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

  Patrick Sky

  Honesty, Reality, Telling The Truth

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• To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

  Chica Umino

  Moon, Night, Hands

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• Nothing makes sense, why should I?

  Suad Amiry

  Should, Make Sense, Nothing Makes Sense

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• How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

  Confucius

  Religion, World, Littles

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• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Use

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• Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Practice, Romance

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• But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

  Athenagoras of Athens

  Christian, Character, Historical

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• And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Heart, Doors

  Peter Damian (2010). “Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices”, p.64, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, White, Want

  Nation, 23 June 1926

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• Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

  Joseph Estrada

  Firsts, Constitution, Guilty

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• I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

  Gillian Flynn

  Despair, Degrees, Bottles

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!

  Lewis Black

  Should, Wells

  "Rules of Enragement". Comedy album, 2003.

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• When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Names

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• Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

  Nathan Deal

  Fall, Glitches, Atm

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Yankees, Funny Baseball

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• Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Monkeys, Should, Organs

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• I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

  Dustin Pedroia

  Losing, Should

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• When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

  Anna Kournikova

  Player, Tennis, Theatre

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• When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

  Gore Vidal

  Secret, Investing, Should

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