Top 100 Should Not Quotes
#1. Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.
John Rocker
#2. If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.
Rob Long
#3. Whistleblowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime and certainly not as terrorism.
Sara Harrison
#4. I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#5. The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.
Bryant McGill
#6. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
Jane Austen
#7. A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
Anton Chekhov
#8. Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty; it should overwhelm and bruise.
Kate Quinn
#9. And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#10. Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#12. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.
Robert M. Pirsig
#13. Guys should not be allowed to be prettier than girls; it just isn't right, or fair.
Rachel Van Dyken
#14. We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
George Eliot
#15. History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
#16. In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
Rene Descartes
#17. Perhaps I should not tell him the dream. It puts me in his hands, it is giving him too much,
Anais Nin
#18. Love it's not supposed to be complicated. It must be easy. It should not need begging and imploring. Love must be simple, because it's just the beginning of a long journey.
Kambiz Shabankareh
#19. People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.
Richard M. Nixon
#20. We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
Deb Caletti
#21. The purpose of a lecture should not be to impart information. There are books, libraries, nowadays the internet, for that. A lecture should inspire and provoke thought.
Richard Dawkins
#22. A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#23. When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.
Peter Kinderman
#24. Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling
#25. We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights ... we are human beings and we make traditions
Malala Yousafzai
#26. Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it ...
H.P. Lovecraft
#27. We will not be demanding service in both French and English at the gas pumps where we fill our cars for twenty percent less than it costs us in Canada. We don't even want to make Americans aware that beer should not have the taste and alcohol content of bottled water.
Gordon Kirkland
#28. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
Bill Brandt
#29. Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity, one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.
Michael Shermer
#30. The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
Plato
#31. More wine?" Tyrion asked him. "I should not object," Lord Janos said, holding out his cup. He was built like a keg, and had a similar capacity.
George R R Martin
#32. America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
Bill Frist
#33. I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
Christopher Columbus
#34. If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
Mark Twain
#35. Quatermain (while climbing down): We are above an abyss such as satan's own, Miss Murray.Pray not to look down.
Mina: And you, Sir, should not look up.You have me at a disadvantage and I trust you'll not misuse our situation.
Alan Moore
#36. There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid
#37. We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
Bobby Knight
#38. A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to:
- Submit to her husband
- Pray harder, or
- Be a better wife
can't help her. She should not feel guilty about looking elsewhere for help.
Caroline Abbott
#39. We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
Steven Pinker
#41. should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover,
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
Brad Thor
#43. The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
John F. Kerry
#44. People with ideas should not be allowed to have an influence on affairs of the world.
Karel Capek
#45. I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.
Elie Wiesel
#46. Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.
Robert M. Pirsig
#47. One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. It is a truth that we should not settle for less, but in the 21st century it is the constant pursuit for more that ruins many.
Hope D. Blackwell
#50. Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Ron Paul
#51. We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
Henry Miller
#52. It is true, we should not be discussing in a wide spread way the exact tactics that we're going to use because that allows terrorist to know to practice how to evade us.
Marco Rubio
#53. The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly
Shigeru Egami
#54. The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.
Robert O. Mendelsohn
#55. No, no, no, no, no. Sex should not be fun, okay? Sex can be lots of things - thrilling, romantic, scary, mindless, dirty, dangerous, frantic, forbidden, freaky - but if you're finding it 'fun,' you're doing it wrong.
Mil Millington
#56. Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.
Idries Shah
#57. Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
Albert Camus
#58. First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
Sherwood Boehlert
#59. He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.
Thomas Carlyle
#60. We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.
Margaret Sanger
#61. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.
Dave Mearns
#62. A girl's reaction to an offer for her first kiss should not be vomit.
April Erwin
#63. Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?
Keith Waterhouse
#64. A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Simon Sinek
#65. But life should not be traded for gold - a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.
Laila Lalami
#66. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
#67. Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other laws should not change unless we the people change them.
John Cornyn
#70. Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
Ferdinand Mount
#71. America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Rand Paul
#72. We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.
Tariq Ramadan
#73. The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
Rowan Williams
#74. The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.
Mohsin Hamid
#75. We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
Epictetus
#76. We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.
Sherrod Brown
#77. Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
Max Von Sydow
#78. Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion
Xenophon
#79. Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.
Sue Augustine
#80. Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
William Hague
#81. The danger is in acting on what you believe satisfies the customer. You will inevitably make wrong assumptions. Leadership should not even try to guess at the answers; it should always go to customers in a systematic quest for those answers.
Peter F. Drucker
#82. I left a pause. 'You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.' 'I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view.
John Fowles
#83. We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.
Shunryu Suzuki
#84. There's one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it's no longer Black Sabbath.
Henry Rollins
#85. If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?
Matthew Donnelly
#86. Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.
Stormie O'martian
#87. If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
Chrysippus
#88. Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be failure but of succeeding at things that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
#89. Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
Seneca The Younger
#90. I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.
Bella Swann
#91. There should not be a party within a party.
Tony Blair
#93. God can never be outdone in generousity and compassion but that should not stop us from trying.
Lucas Michael
#94. When I think about sex, you know, I want it to feel good. Not feel good, shut up, but right. Happy, not just banging away somewhere. You know, you should not just do it to do it. You should love the guy.
Daniel Handler
#95. Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
Umberto Eco
#96. We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.
Malala Yousafzai
#97. The love you do have in your life should not be overshadowed by the love you don't
Steven Aitchison
#98. My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#99. Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
Nancy Astor
#100. Silence can symbolize many things; fear, anger, sadness, or shame. But one thing that silence cannot symbolize is happiness because silence is dark, silence is quiet, silence is everything happiness should not acquire.
Keysi
