Should I Quotes - Page 15

• Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

  Salman Khan

  Children, Niece, Nephew

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

  Rachel Klein

  Funeral, Body, Too Late

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

  Howard Jacobson

  Use, Shells, Praise

  Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.

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• My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.

  Burne Hogarth

  Father, Drawing, Focus

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• Which Seat Should I Take?

  Rebecca Black

  Song, Should, Pops

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• Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Animal, Bird

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.277

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• Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wisdom, Differences, Making A Difference

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

  Adriana Trigiani

  Boys, Excellence, Settling

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Humility, Perfection

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, April, Should

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• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Answers, Students

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• But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

  Ellen Douglas

  Passion, Men, Female

  Ellen Douglas (2012). “A Lifetime Burning”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• 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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• Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

  Jim Harrison

  Dream, People, Vision

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

  Philip Wollen

  Country, Children, Food

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

  Andy Andrews

  Heart, Emotional, People

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

  James Dobson

  Forever, Ted Bundy, Conservative

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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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• Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dog, Truth, Lying

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.8, Penguin

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