Should Quotes - page 9

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Margaret Mead)
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. View quote
George S. Patton
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. View quote
Gertrude Stein
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. View quote
Marvin Bower
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. View quote
Robert McNamara
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. (Susan B. Anthony)
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said. View quote
Alan Greenspan
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Old women should not seek to be perfumed. View quote
Archilochus
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. View quote
Mae West
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. View quote
Joseph Addison
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. View quote
Lauryn Hill
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. (Xun Zi)
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. View quote
John Venn
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. View quote
Iris Murdoch
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. View quote
Colette
No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. View quote
Hilary Putnam