Top 100 Should Be Quotes
#1. What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
John Hughes
#2. If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
Satish Kumar
#3. In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
Edith Wharton
#4. Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
Jesse Ventura
#5. your first idea is unlikely to be the best, so you should be optimising for speed of iteration rather than quality of prototype.
Adrian McEwen
#6. I'm sorry, I mouthed to him before I said out loud, The file's exactly where it should be. Stuck so far up your ass that it'll never see the light of day again.
Aimee Carter
#7. I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury
#8. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull
#9. He's called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I've never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two." My eyes narrowed on her. "How do you know about the phone sex?" "Duh. I pick up the phone and listen." I gaped at her.
Gena Showalter
#10. In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).
Albert C. Barnes
#11. Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
Irving Kirsch
#12. Being" is far more important than "doing." When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.
Billy Graham
#13. I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.
Mitt Romney
#14. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
Miguel Ruiz
#15. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
Guy Kawasaki
#16. Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.
Robert Lacey
#17. I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
#18. The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
Edward Weston
#19. It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.
James Madison
#20. You can't understand where you should be going until you understand what you were created to be.
Norma Gail
#21. I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.
Rob Letterman
#22. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
Marco Rubio
#23. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald Dahl
#24. Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
#25. I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.
Debora Spar
#26. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.
Laszlo Bock
#27. I am not happy to play for Barcelona, but Barcelona should be happy that I play there.
Romario
#28. Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.
Larry Page
#29. He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
Agatha Christie
#30. You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
Michael Crichton
#31. Disappointments are worse when they are caused by the people who should be your role models.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#33. I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach to kill bugs. What this does for the taste, I do not know, but I think we should be told.
Charles Clover
#34. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.
L.T. Vargus
#35. The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
Maajid Nawaz
#36. That's what a real family does, right? You're accepted no matter what. You're included every time you show up. That's how it should be.
Jennifer Ryan
#37. Medicine cat' means nothing on its own, without an understanding of what should be done
which isn't always what you first think.
Erin Hunter
#38. Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
Kevin DeYoung
#39. Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet
Robin Lim
#40. It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a ballet, or else he is only part of a man.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water.
Keri Hulme
#42. Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.
Colin Powell
#43. There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
Alexander Payne
#44. If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself.
Kristen Stewart
#45. The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
Fouad Ajami
#46. People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.
Diablo Cody
#47. Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
Shirley Booth
#48. Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.
Irene Nemirovsky
#49. Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad station, for instance, should be preserved as a national shrine: there is more wit there than in any Broadway hit!
Truman Capote
#50. I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way.
Rosa Parks
#51. Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be ... a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign
#52. That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now ...
Tim Ferriss
#53. I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
John Irving
#55. Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
H. Rap Brown
#56. We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.
Diane Wilson
#57. We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
Charles Spurgeon
#58. It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
#59. If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror ... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'
James Packer
#60. We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#61. There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.
Richard Holmes
#62. I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
Cilla Black
#63. Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
#64. London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
Boris Johnson
#65. No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
Henry Rollins
#66. If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.
Herman Melville
#67. Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.
John C. Maxwell
#68. Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
Vincent De Paul
#69. Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Thomas J. Stanley
#70. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
Jill Stein
#72. Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
Bauvard
#73. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
Horace Walpole
#74. How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here, with a veil of forgetfulness of our previous existence so that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to receive.
Thomas S. Monson
#75. Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions ... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief
Harun Yahya
#76. My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
Rashida Jones
#77. I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#78. I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is ...
Peter Andrews
#79. Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
Eliot Spitzer
#80. A chat
With the Grim Reaper
should be enough to scare
away any thought of relapse.
Wish it were that easy,
but not even days conversing
with death can disintegrate
the claws of addiction.
Ellen Hopkins
#81. Instead of pondering the question "Can we have it all?," we should be asking the more practical question "Can we do it all?" And again, the answer is no.
Sheryl Sandberg
#82. Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
James Fallows
#83. Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers
Sunday Adelaja
#84. It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.
John Green
#85. New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [ ... ] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
Joseph C. Lincoln
#86. Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#87. Concentration is not to try hard to watch something ... Concentration means freedom ... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.
Brent Weeks
#89. The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.
Chief Joseph
#90. He wonders whether this very idea of loneliness is something he would feel at all had he not been awakened to the fact that he should be feeling lonely,
Hanya Yanagihara
#91. You have the rest of your life to be married. Enjoy falling in love. When girls get caught up in the timeline, it becomes more about the wedding than the marriage. You should be with someone with whom you could elope this weekend and be happy.
Lauren Conrad
#93. It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
Arthur Smith
#94. One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor
#96. It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle.
#97. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -
Rick Riordan
#98. The appearance of a pest should be regarded as a warning from Mother Earth to put our house in order.
Albert Howard
#99. Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#100. Your sins are what make you fantastic. It's what makes you alive. You should wear your sins on your sleeve. You should be trying to top your sins on a daily basis.
Doug Stanhope
