Should I Quotes - Page 14

• I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Yesterday, Mourning

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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• If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

  Martin Gardner

  Lying, Cat, Answers

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• I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

  Ralph Goings

  Jobs, Real, Shoes

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• Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

  Mary Slessor

  Kings, Royal, Should

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• Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

  Ally Condie

  Life, Night, Way

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.12, Penguin

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• I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

  Terry Fox

  Remember, Should, Prove

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• All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Impossible, Should

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sweet, Book, Answers

  Twitter post from Jul 2, 2013

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• I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Justice, Way

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

  Raymond Smullyan

  Dying, Lifetime, Worried

  Raymond Smullyan (1986). “This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

  Richard Rohr

  Care, Take Care, Should

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• I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?

  Nicholas Parsons

  Should, Pompous

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• I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

  Marc Riboud

  Encounters, Surprise, Should

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• Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

  Pietro Aretino

  Should, Ashamed

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• Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

  Bryan Ferry

  Ugly, Suits, Mood

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Blessed, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Thinking, Worry

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.346, Discovery House

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• If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Prayer, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love You, Worship, Should

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• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Dinner, Digestion

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• Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

  Kenneth Copeland

  Eye, Listening, Ears

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• Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Shining, World

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

  Adele

  Giving Up, Pavement, Should

  Song: Chasing Pavements, Album: 19, 2008

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• I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

  Chris Pine

  Responsibility, Thinking, Should Have

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• I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.

  David Duchovny

  Ocean, Thinking, Sharks

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