Should Quotes - page 99

America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death should take me while I am in the mood. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
She wanted-what some people want throughout life-a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum. View quote
Phillip Guston
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity. View quote
Paul Kurtz
I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone's reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn't mean you should be permanently disqualified. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity. View quote
Shunroku Hata
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? (Ward Churchill)
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. View quote
Karen Horney
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover. View quote
Arthur Symons
The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies. View quote
James Berardinelli
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. View quote
Bette Davis
Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes. View quote
Chris Martin
Anyone who criticizes me for talking about fair trade is really a few pebbles short of a beach, because everybody should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment: because we all live here. MTV, 2005. source. View quote
Chris Martin
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual. View quote
Jacques Barzun
When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! (Thomas Hood)
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. View quote
Toni Morrison
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal. View quote
Sophocles
It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth! View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. View quote
Leo Tolstoy