Top 100 This Must Quotes
#1. As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.
James Packer
#3. Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.
Cherie Priest
#4. Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.
George Leonard
#5. Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren't, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done.
Sheryl Sandberg
#6. Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
John Knowles
#7. Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged.
Elie Wiesel
#8. This must be Monday Night RAW, we just got a Wendy's chant.
John Cena
#9. After class, it was Ash who had initiated things. He had a radiant smile that spoke to her heart in a way no one ever had, and she thought, This must be what love feels like.
Vrinda Pendred
#10. At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Dallas Willard
#11. If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.
Ron Jeffries
#12. There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
Alfred Henry Sturtevant
#13. This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
Jose Saramago
#14. Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
#16. If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]
Andrew Marvell
#17. Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#18. And this must be our little Flavia!'
On paper the man was already dead.
Alan Bradley
#19. Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London.
Ian Fleming
#20. My first coherent thought was, It's raining. This must be Scotland.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.
Jason Gann
#22. We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
Raymond Williams
#23. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
George R R Martin
#24. This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.
Elizabeth Strout
#25. If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day
#26. I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
Antonin Dvorak
#27. It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
#28. This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.
Nelson Mandela
#29. Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil.
Diana Gabaldon
#30. But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear ...
You are in the city of lies.
Arlene J. Chai
#31. What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#32. She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be?
("Mind Over Murder")
Cornell Woolrich
#33. Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
Robert A. Heinlein
#34. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
Pope Leo XIII
#35. Swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged.
David Self
#36. Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.
Ralph Abraham
#37. This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
Dorothy Parker
#38. It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
Frederick The Great
#39. I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.
John Niven
#40. The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
Max Von Stephanitz
#41. The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
Elie Wiesel
#42. Normal people hadn't been molested or reared by a clinically psychotic mother, an alcoholic father, or a perversely mad psychiatrist who wore a Santa hat and performed toilet bowl readings. These were normal people, and I lived among them now. I thought, This must be what I want.
Augusten Burroughs
#43. It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#44. I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.
Charles Kennedy
#45. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.
Germaine De Stael
#46. Everywhere you find yourself a great opportunity for you to manifest agape love and give. This must be your lifestyle everyday.
Paul Silway
#47. The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.
Carrot Top
#48. The disaster ... is what escapes the very possibility of experience - it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
Maurice Blanchot
#49. If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
Miyamoto Musashi
#50. When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.
Sean Young
#52. The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
James T. Walsh
#53. This must be what a fly felt like when it was caught fast in a spider's web.
R.K. Lilley
#54. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.
Janet Fitch
#55. This must be the most important factor in your choice of a life partner," he told Ada. "Who will most patiently and enthusiastically support your ambitions?
Liz Moore
#56. Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Jenny Shipley
#57. If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough
#58. Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.
Robert M. Lindner
#59. only to recommend. This must be corrected. Despite this increase in information that the commissioner
Brent Rathgeber
#60. I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.
Anne Rice
#61. If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if this must lead into further deterioration, then I will have no quarrel with it. I might even, in some circumstances, feel obliged to support him.
T. S. Eliot
#62. Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children - some day they grow up.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#63. They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone
Kesha
#64. This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan - making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
Rachel Cohn
#65. If Satan really wanted to face Jesus Christ in a battle, he will be facilitating the End of the Age by helping to spread the gospel to the whole world. This must be fulfilled for the End to come. Matthew 24:14
Felix Wantang
#66. A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.
Heidi Julavits
#67. This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!
C.S. Lewis
#68. I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.
George Pattison
#69. Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.
Murray Rothbard
#70. An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#71. After the play, he counts on playing cards,
and he on a wild night in some girl's arms -
why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools
so sorely try the Muses' kindness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#72. This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Douglas Adams
#73. Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
Charles Dickens
#74. What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour ... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.
Claire Denis
#75. This must be the weirdest thing a football coach has ever seen: two quarterbacks making out.
Miranda Kenneally
#76. All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.
Israel Regardie
#77. The most important thing Zen Buddhism teaches us is that we are already originally enlightened. This must never be forgotten.
Clara Taylor
#78. I have a dream ... I have a dream today ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#79. Well now, this must be love. You sharing the biscuits." "They're cookies. Biscuits are hot bread you smother in butter or gravy. Remember which side of the Atlantic you're on, ace.
J.D. Robb
#80. This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
Jodi Picoult
#81. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?
Virginia Woolf
#82. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?
In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
David Brier
#83. This must be the most embarrassing moment in my life. I am glad I am too ill to appreciate it fully.
Janet Mullany
#84. Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
Leonard Bernstein
#85. This must be
what love is:
a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others.
Sara Eliza Johnson
#86. I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.
Nicolas Roeg
#87. There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
John Mellencamp
#88. This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.
Courtney Summers
#89. This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
Wallace D. Wattles
#90. Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges
Giovanni Bisignani
#91. This must be insanity. (But I'm as sane as anyone.)
Patrick Ness
#92. This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.
Anthony Burgess
#93. With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.
Dervla Murphy
#94. Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.
John F. Kennedy
#95. When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.
Alex Zar
#96. If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
Rudolf Steiner
#97. If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Imre Lakatos
#98. Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness
Aristotle.
#99. The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity.
Basil Hiley
#100. The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.
Fridtjof Nansen
