Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
I don’t see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don’t think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.
Mindset is important, I should always think about finishing games from any position.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokenized. It will create a deeper market with improved price discovery and should increase the value of those assets.
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.
Bullying is so common that it’s viewed as almost ‘normal,’ but it should never be.
Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.
People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don’t think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Stick to the classics, and you can’t ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it’s because they are probably wearing really classic items that they’ve had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.
No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
