Quotes on Should

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, "I should've..." You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.