Should I Quotes - Page 16

• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Giving, Haste

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Great Day, Should

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

  Annie Besant

  Lying, Responsibility, Two

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• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

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• After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

  Terry Goodkind

  Moving, Years, Want

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• Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

  Pete Dye

  Life Is, Should, Courses

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• All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

  Neil Young

  Writing, Want, Down And

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• Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
  the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain.
  “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn?
  It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.”
  Whatever you lost through fate,
  be certain that it saved you from pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Fate, Laughing

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• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

  Janis Joplin

  Years, Twenties, Sound

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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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• Why should I seek for love or study it?
  It is of God and passes human wit;
  I study hatred with great diligence,
  For that's a passion in my own control,
  A sort of besom that can clear the soul
  Of everything that is not mind or sense.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Passion, Hatred

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.245, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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