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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
David LynchRead
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John LockeRead
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
George Bernard ShawRead
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
Bobby JonesRead
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.
Christopher HitchensRead
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir LeninRead
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry AdamsRead
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
Oscar WildeRead
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
Rene DescartesRead
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
AristotleRead
Had it pleas'd heaven_x000D_ _x000D_ To try me with affliction * * *_x000D_ _x000D_ I should have found in some place of my soul_x000D_ _x000D_ A drop of patience.
William ShakespeareRead
What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it’s funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I’d be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I’m willing to die alone but god knows I don’t want to live that way.
Shane KoyczanRead
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
Billy ConnollyRead
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
Tony KushnerRead
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
John LockeRead
You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.
C. S. LewisRead
‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
John GreenRead

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