Top 100 You Shouldn't Quotes
#1. You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
Hiroyuki Takei
#2. The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
Jimmy Fallon
#3. When a man's trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn't leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!
Dada Bhagwan
#4. The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
Aaron Patzer
#5. It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
Rebecca West
#6. Life's like Scrabble, you shouldn't save your good letters, you've got to use them as soon as you get them.
T.R. Richmond
#7. A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Alexander Woollcott
#8. I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
Ranveer Singh
#9. You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.
Lindsay Lohan
#10. You shouldn't
date someone if your heart is owned by someone
else. It doesn't work, trust me.
Anna Todd
#12. You shouldn't let him hit you so much" observed saphira
"Yes I realize that'" he growled.
"Do you want me to knock him over for you?"
"No ... not today.
Christopher Paolini
#13. You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.
Lewis Carroll
#14. When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.
Matt McGorry
#15. She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.
Sharon Shinn
#16. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#17. What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound experiences which have some satisfaction and can be retained in your four senses and your imagination for the rest of your life?
Peter Greenaway
#18. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.
Orson Scott Card
#19. Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
Joss Whedon
#20. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
Umberto Eco
#21. You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#22. I've always believed that if you're truly in love with someone, you shouldn't be able to answer the question 'What do you love about him?' with any kind of real satisfaction.
Andrea Seigel
#23. But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.
John Thune
#24. You shouldn't have laughed."
"Pardon?"
"I might have let you be, but you laughed
Kristen Ashley
#25. If you really love someone you shouldn't have to think about anything. You should want to say it. It's not difficult.
Katie Klein
#26. 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
#27. I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD."
"And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.
Melina Marchetta
#28. We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.
Brian Lamb
#29. There must be a very good reason why you're still here, because there are thousand reasons why you shouldn't be.
T.L. Hines
#30. When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.
David Bergen
#31. You shouldn't be wasting your time worrying about what's going to happen after you die. It's pointless. Think about what's happening now. In your life. That's what's important. So change the subject, will you?
Clare Furniss
#32. I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants.
Carrie Prejean
#33. Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn't depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are...
Assegid Habtewold
#34. Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
Bob Woodward
#35. You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.
Stephen Colbert
#36. Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.
Lara Fabian
#37. I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
Hanya Yanagihara
#38. I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.
Kevin McKidd
#39. If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.
Steven Pinker
#40. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John C. Bogle
#41. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.
Haruki Murakami
#42. Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.
Andy Rubin
#43. When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn't pay attention to them, you shouldn't take them seriously.
Jessica Valenti
#44. Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
David Levithan
#45. So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.
Colin Firth
#46. You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
Daniel Quinn
#47. Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are.
Lucy Robinson
#48. What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded.
Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.
Cassandra Clare
#49. If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive
Aliko Dangote
#50. There's a saying in Hardorn," she continued. "'You shouldn't attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.' I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.
Mercedes Lackey
#51. Well,
me," he said. "A
ing wizard. I hate
ing wizards!" "You shouldn't
them, then," muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
Terry Pratchett
#52. The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Gurinder Chadha
#53. Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that 'no' for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn't feel the need to feel guilty.
Forrest Curran
#54. Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.
Neil Strauss
#55. -You shouldn't be here, You should be home with Kathy.
-Kathy knows where I am. She's worried about you.I'm going to be here until they kick me out and then i'll be back in the morning. ~Carlos & Maddie
Bernadette Marie
#56. Your subservience makes me uncomfortable."
That pissed me off. "Then you shouldn't pay people to do things for you. End of story.
Erin McCarthy
#57. I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
Phil Keoghan
#58. I want her to be smart and kind ... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#60. I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.
Robert Pattinson
#61. You shouldn't describe your underwear to a young man to whom you are not related. It isn't delicate. - Bill Eversleigh
Agatha Christie
#62. You shouldn't rush, he said. There are no taste buds in your stomach.
Anthony Marra
#63. Yes, something about the fabric of life ripping for a moment so you glimpsed things you shouldn't have seen.
Anne Rice
#64. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
Chuck Grassley
#65. You shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinary man.
Haruki Murakami
#66. You pushed it too far. You shouldn't take the same risk again."
"Says the guy who got shot.
Joss Stirling
#67. You shouldn't have to be forced to be strong on your own because no one will stand with you. Your dad failed you, Noah failed you. I will not fail you again.
Tarryn Fisher
#68. You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.
Ninette De Valois
#69. I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
Burt Reynolds
#70. Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.
Jay Crownover
#71. I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
Ron Wyden
#72. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.
Kyle West
#73. He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle. Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.
Neal Shusterman
#74. You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care about those values very much.
Edward Snowden
#75. People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.
Dolly Parton
#76. There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving
#77. The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
Samuel West
#78. For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.
Paul Haggis
#79. Perhaps, sir, for our purposes, sir, you shouldn't think of it as your mother abandoned you. Instead, perhaps think of it as she gave you up for adoption slightly later than usual.
Nathan Hill
#80. Have you ever considered that you shouldn't pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them?
Shannon L. Alder
#81. _'You shouldn't say thank you for a good review,' said Harriet. 'That would imply that one had done a favour to the author, whereas one has simply done justice to the book.'_
Dorothy L. Sayers
#82. The fallacy of trying to time the highs and lows Trying to time the highs and lows of the market is a fool's game. It can't be done with any reliability, and you shouldn't waste your time trying.
Jesse Mecham
#83. No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.
Radiohead
#84. Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
Tatiana Maslany
#85. You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile
Bei Maejor
#86. Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of frakkin' power!"
"Dude," Cruz said. "You shouldn't mix swears from different universes.
Ernest Cline
#87. Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.
Brian Michael Bendis
#88. I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.
Julian Barnes
#89. When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
Michael Caine
#90. You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.
Keith Green
#91. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.
Glenn Hoddle
#92. You shouldn't live your life according to someone else's expectations
Steven Aitchison
#93. You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message,
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#94. When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.
Scoot McNairy
#95. You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.
Peter Singer
#96. I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one.
C. JoyBell C.
#97. You shouldn't greet monsters that way. It's scary."
(Corky from Teresa's Shadow)
Jennifer Gladen
#99. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.
George Foreman
#100. You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
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