Should I Quotes - Page 8

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

John Lancaster Spalding

Philosophical, Thinking, Wish

John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

Edge

Thinking, Wwe, Giving

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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Trust, Drunk, Soup

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We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

Mark Price

Believe, Ocean, Average

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We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

Robert Kennedy

Believe, Ambition, Men

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Heart, Feelings, Details

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I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Juliana Hatfield

Years, Embarrassing, Should

"A heart that hurts is a heart that works. I will beat my anorexia" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

Eva Gabor

Done, Actresses, Should

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What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

Gunter Grass

Skins, Germany, Campaigns

"A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Stephenie Meyer

Vampire, Should, Terrified

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Should I call the FBI and tell them I found DB Cooper?

Saul

Should, Found, Fbi

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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stupid, Hate, Perfect

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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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