Should I Quotes - Page 18

• Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

  Rachel Vincent

  Men, Assuming, Attractive

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.532, Harlequin

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• Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.616

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• This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

  Emma Donoghue

  Sorry, Stories, Want

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.157, Pan Macmillan

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• You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

  David Mamet

  Choices, Use, Actors

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• I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

  Kevin Costner

  Movie, Halloween, Who I Am

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• But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

  Christopher Columbus

  Gold, Purpose, Spices

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54

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• You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Giving, Important

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• If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?

  Maria Callas

  Hurt, People, Should

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• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  Rachel Cohn

  Reading, Romance, Everlasting Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Names, Glasses

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.63, St. Martin's Press

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• Her dark-eyed glare narrowed on me. "You could have least given him a shirt, Kaylee." "Like you're an expert on when it's appropriate to wear a shirt." Sabine bristled. "This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Dark, Fighting

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• There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?" He stares at me for a few seconds. "Go," he says, "and God help you.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, Eye, Gun

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• Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hug, Duvets, Consideration

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

  Steve Martin

  Editing, People, Directors

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• Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school." Todd: "I never knew that." Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor." Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Grandma, School, Issues

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• A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Hurt, Children, Home

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Why should I cook for my husband? So he can tell a hooker I make a delicious cake?

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Cake, Should

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• Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”

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• It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

  Plotinus

  Portraiture, Enough, Should

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• We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Thinking, Focus, Asking

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2009). “The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul”, p.52, The Golden Sufi Center

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• But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

  John Buchan

  Dust, Romance, Firsts

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• "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die."
  "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...]
  "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Children, Yams

  "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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• What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

  Hermann Goring

  Soldier, Enemy, Care

  Remark on March 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

  Billy Childish

  Brother, Names, Age

  "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 02, 2006.

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