Should Be Able To Quotes

#1. Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#2. It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

Mark Udall

#3.
what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to control life so perfectly that we can keep bad things from happening.

Judith Warner

#4. You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

Justin Vernon

#5. I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

Amber Benson

#6. There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

Eli Pariser

#7. I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

Michael Nutter

#8. Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

Marvin Ammori

#9. A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Rob Portman

#11. They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.

Cara Delevingne

#12. A good friends should be able to tell you anything. Maybe your boyfriend's screwing around, or a dress that makes your love handles hang over like a shar-pei's skin? In either case, if they're not brave enough to tell it like it is? They're not your best friend.

Emma Chase

#13. My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty

#14. The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.

Larenz Tate

#15. Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

Louis C.K.

#16. My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Peter Davison

#18. We should be using our brilliant people, our most brilliant minds to figure a way that ISIS cannot use the Internet. And then on second, we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS. And we can do that if we use our good people.

Donald Trump

#19. Here is my theory: If smoking is really good, you should be able to smoke and do nothing else at the same time, really focusing all your attention on smoking and how it makes you feel.

Gudjon Bergmann

#20. In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the concsciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

Victor Hugo

#21. It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Gloria Steinem

#22. I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

Russell Crowe

#23. Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.

Jon Tester

#24. When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

Joan Bauer

#25. The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Theresa May

#26. Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f ... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

Eminem

#27. In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Gillian Jacobs

#28. I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

Jonathan Davis

#29. But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

Ed O'Brien

#30. I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

Jason Aaron

#31. I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

Laura Vandervoort

#32. I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

Leslie Feinberg

#33. Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.

Richard Dawkins

#34. Children should be like waffles
you should be able to throw the first one away.

Nancy Mitford

#35. That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

Nicole Kidman

#36. a girl should be able to back up a "No" in case it wasn't heard.

Eve Langlais

#37. A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

Neil Gaiman

#38. I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

Philip K. Dick

#39. Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy bank.

Myra McEntire

#40. I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

Danica Patrick

#41. A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl

#42. I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

Julia Mavimbela

#43. But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Alfred Doblin

#44. Children should be able to live a life free from electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure and radio frequency (RF) radiation pollution and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

Steven Magee

#45. No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.

CrimethInc.

#46. Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#47. Who do you love?
It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing.
Who do you love?

Lisa Gardner

#48. I can't help thinking that a heroine should be able to love without being erased.

Samantha Ellis

#49. You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

Chris Bauer

#50. I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it ...

Michael Jackson

#51. Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

Jackie Mason

#52. I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.

Richard Gough

#53. I don't really have a process. I'm very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

Sophie Turner

#54. I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.

Channing Tatum

#55. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

Gail Collins

#56. Well till 50's one must not think of being old - and should be able to run and have fun both ... having few grey means that you have mature approach !!

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#57. There is no shame is asking for help. We accept the fact that those at the end of life and those at the beginning of life require assistance, yet we somehow believe that adults should be able to be independent in spite of hardship.

Lisa Arends

#58. Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

Hillary Clinton

#59. Grimalkin jumped up beside Ash again. "The park," he said calmly. "We take him to the park. The dryads should be able to help him."
"Should? What if they can't?"
"Then, human, I would start praying for a miracle."
-Grimalkin and Meghan

Julie Kagawa

#60. A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

Jeanette Winterson

#61. We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.

John McCain

#62. The more fragile the animal, the more it needs to protect itself. So the more venom a creature has, the more we should be able to forgive that animal. They're the ones that need it most. And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn't even have any bones?

Ali Benjamin

#63. It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#64. An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.

John Michael Higgins

#65. We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#66. You don't have to go that far," Dr. Roberts said. "You should be able to walk normally. Just no more jumping from balconies for a while."
"How about ever?" Gabriel asked. "Let's go with that. Never ever jump off the school balcony again. Or any balcony. Stay away from balconies.

C.L.Stone

#67. And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch."
"I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.

Cassandra Clare

#68. Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

Charles Kennedy

#69. In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

Joseph Joubert

#70. Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.

Dennis Crowley

#71. I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

Jon Anderson

#72. I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Al Franken

#73. A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Paul Westerberg

#74. Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.

Rob Pike

#75. Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Richard M. Nixon

#76. One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it,

Lilian Jackson Braun

#77. I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

Grant Mudford

#78. A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

Aristophanes

#79. I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

#80. Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

Logan Green

#81. We could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?

V.C. Andrews

#82. The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

Justin Vernon

#83. True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Shusaku Endo

#84. I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Jodi Picoult

#85. I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.

Jonathan Galassi

#86. I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or the grocery store safely and efficiently so they can live better lives.

Ben Sollee

#87. Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

Ana Monnar

#88. If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

David Nicholls

#89. Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. ... Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Erik Naggum

#90. In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Zaha Hadid

#91. As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

Betty Buckley

#92. Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is
how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Dan Buettner

#93. No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Garrett Hardin

#94. I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

Michael Moore

#95. I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

Gloria Steinem

#96. An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

Coco Chanel

#97. I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

Richard Dooling

#98. Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

Timothy Carey

#99. The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#100. There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

John Stuart Mill