Should I Quotes - Page 2

• I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?

  Nicholas Parsons

  Should, Pompous

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• I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

  Marc Riboud

  Encounters, Surprise, Should

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• Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

  Pietro Aretino

  Should, Ashamed

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• Which Seat Should I Take?

  Rebecca Black

  Song, Should, Pops

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• Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Animal, Bird

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.277

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• Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dog, Truth, Lying

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.8, Penguin

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• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love You, Worship, Should

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• Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

  Oliver Heaviside

  Understanding, Dinner, Digestion

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• Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

  Kenneth Copeland

  Eye, Listening, Ears

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• Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Shining, World

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

  Adele

  Giving Up, Pavement, Should

  Song: Chasing Pavements, Album: 19, 2008

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• All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

  Howard Jacobson

  Use, Shells, Praise

  Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.

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• My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.

  Burne Hogarth

  Father, Drawing, Focus

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

  Tony Romo

  Sports, Winning, Done

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• When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

  Edwin Lefevre

  Men, Want, He Man

  "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". Book by Edwin Lefèvre. Chapter XVII, p. 211, 1923.

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• I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

  Fabio Capello

  Intelligent, Player, Media

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• The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.

  Sarah Connor

  Father, Crazy, Thinking

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• If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Prayer, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Thinking, Worry

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.346, Discovery House

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Blessed, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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