Should I Quotes - Page 25

• I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Fighting, America

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• Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

  Benjamin Martin

  Tyrants, Three, Patriot

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• Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'

  Damon Lindelof

  Fashion, Character, Doors

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• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Ideas, Waiting

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Everyday, Doe

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• People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do what I want." So he had to be put out of the way quickly because he was a revolutionary.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, People, Want

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• "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

  John William Fletcher

  Hands, Religion, Comfort

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• Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!

  Terry Goodkind

  Want, Arguing, Logic

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• The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jesus, Religion, Should

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• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  Oscar Nunez

  Morning, Wake Up, Should

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• Nothing lasts forever. Should I?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Forever, Unanswered Questions, Lasts

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• Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

  Rod Stewart

  Relationship, Wife, Bed

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• J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.

  Burton Malkiel

  Sleep, Night, Eating Well

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• Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Thinking, Shells, World

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• Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Color, Years

  Letter to Eckermann, December 30, 1823.

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• Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Answers, Loan

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• Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

  Emily Blunt

  Way, Should, Persons

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

  Karen Chance

  Irritation, Meat, Doe

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• No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “This Is Emo: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Horse, Player

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.389

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• What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

  Shannon Hale

  Hurt, Should, I Like Him

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.163, A&C Black

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• Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Soul, Should

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

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• Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Want, Pleasure

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

  William P. Young

  Men, Anxiety, Care

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