Quotes on Should

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.