Oughts And Shoulds Quotes

#1. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

Ingvar Kamprad

#2. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#3. The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.

Douglas Wilson

#4. Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

Charlotte Pearson

#5. Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy's rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence.

Isaac Asimov

#7. I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.

Eva Mendes

#8. I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.

Persis Khambatta

#9. I turned to Caeden. "Holy hell, what happened while we were gone? Is it mating season for wolves?"
Caeden's blue eyes were wide. "Apparently so.

Micalea Smeltzer

#10. Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

#11. Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#12. Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one these days you can let the light in
Show me ... how BIG your BRAVE is!

Sara Bareilles

#13. Before you request my help, check underneath your couch cushion. Then call me.

The Searcher

#14. All I ever have to be is what you made me.

Amy Grant

#15. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope