Should I Quotes - Page 11

• Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

  Michael Donaghy

  Hurt, Asking, Breakfast

  Michael Donaghy (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Mean

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• Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

  Douglas Adams

  Want, Enough, Should

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

  Charles Taylor

  Unique, Voice, Mold

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Fickle, Affection

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1450, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.

  Neal Shusterman

  Should, Knows, Asks

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Patterns, Heat

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Gun, Cheater

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hurt, Should, Not Afraid

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Lying, Say Anything

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.530, Pan Macmillan

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• I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Neglect, Should

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Being Yourself, Adventure, Voice

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• Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Heart, Moments, Should

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

  Umberto Eco

  Latin, Italian, Reflection

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

  Wilbur Smith

  Children, Perfect, Monsters

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• Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

  Rumi

  Unhappy, Should, Sufism

  "The Rumi Collection".

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• Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Believe, Trying

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• Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

  Lou Reed

  New York, Writing, Careers

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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  Nancy Reagan

  Believe, Abortion, Want

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• All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

  Prince

  Clothes, Dancing, Singing

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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Giving, Interviews, Should

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• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Jobs, People, Public Opinion

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• I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

  Spike Milligan

  Reading, Should, Sonnet

  "Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor Live at Cambridge University", December 2, 1973.

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