Should I Quotes - Page 21

• I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

  Cindy Crawford

  Years, Looks, Should

  "Cindy Crawford: 'I've Finally Found a Good Balance'". Interview with Erin Hill, parade.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Blessed are the powers that grant me magic.
  I promise to use their gift well.
  To help mend my world.
  To help mend all worlds.
  And should I forget to mend,
  Should I refuse to mend,
  Still I will remember
  To do no harm.

  Janni Lee Simner

  Blessed, Magic, Promise

  Janni Lee Simner (2013). “Faerie After: Book 3 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy”, p.258, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

  Georges Perec

  Ideas, Twenties, Answers

  Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press

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• In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Grieving, Years

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

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• Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Want, Should, What You Want

  Joyce Carol Oates (1979). “Night-Side”, Fawcett Books

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• What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Night

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• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

  Laura Mullen

  Pain, Real, Healing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Choices, Rules And Regulations, World

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• I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

  Ed Parker

  Hands, Honor, Principles

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• Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  I Like You, Believe, Thinking

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• Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

  Rachel Caine

  Reality, Guy, Sound

  Rachel Caine (2008). “Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires”, p.94, Penguin

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• What should I be but just what I am?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Should

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921). “A Few Figs from Thistles”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Eyebrows, Should

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• Because I'm in a modern studio, there are so many possibilities - you can do so much. So it's sometimes a little bit confusing for me to actually see which way should I choose.

  Trentemøller

  Confusing, Littles, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

  William S. Burroughs

  Clouds, Creating, Vacuums

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Tao is so important because it is connected to all the life forms - it's related to the whole universe. Nobody can say, "Tao has nothing to do with me. Why should I try to understand it?" because actually, Tao has everything to do with us.

  Henry Chang

  Trying, Important, Tao

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• I really like individualism based on truth. That's something I try to think about. What do I actually think about that, what do I actually feel right now? As opposed what should I feel.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Thinking, Trying, Individualism

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong?

  Tyler Blackburn

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking About You, Want, Annoying

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1209, Penguin

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• We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Fall, Twilight

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• Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Reading, People, Suffering

  "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

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• When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Silence

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• I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

  Questlove

  Real, People, Important

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• It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

  Paul Watson

  Drama, Communication, Law

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• I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I should. I have faith that these terrible trends will change, and they will not go to their logical conclusions of climate change, militarism, pollution, overpopulation.

  Robert Thurman

  Thinking, Grandchildren, Trends

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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