Should I Quotes - Page 3

• When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Giving, Haste

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Great Day, Should

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

  Annie Besant

  Lying, Responsibility, Two

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• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

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• After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

  Terry Goodkind

  Moving, Years, Want

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• Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

  Pete Dye

  Life Is, Should, Courses

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• All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

  Neil Young

  Writing, Want, Down And

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• Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
  the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain.
  “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn?
  It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.”
  Whatever you lost through fate,
  be certain that it saved you from pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Fate, Laughing

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• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

  Janis Joplin

  Years, Twenties, Sound

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• Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

  Bryan Ferry

  Ugly, Suits, Mood

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• My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Focus, Video, Way

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• Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

  Marie Laurencin

  Girl, Art, Beer

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

  Joe Louis

  Boxing, Should, Aria

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• Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

  Tony Galento

  Boxing, Pay, Should

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• If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

  Svetlana Kuznetsova

  Morning, Night, Eight

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• Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Years, Worry, Worried

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• Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

  Tom Berenger

  Real, Mistake, Thinking

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• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Mean, People

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• I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

  Fatima Robinson

  Expectations, Way, Instinct

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• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  Flip Wilson

  Self, Want, Comedy

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• The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

  John McCain

  Book, Issues, Economics

  "Responding to Recession" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. Janaury 14, 2008.

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• I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

  Bob Dylan

  God, Choices, Mountain

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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