Should Quotes - Page 18

• Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world." "I would rather Winslow do it.

  Julie Garwood

  New Life, World, Littles

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.111, Penguin

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• Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.

  Derek Landy

  People, Rolling, Balls

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• At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

  Amanda Hocking

  Castles, Band, Care

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Dream, Lying, May

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• That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Way, Study, Academic

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• THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Church, Said

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Mar 13, 2012

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• I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

  David Grossman

  Morning, Feelings, Want

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• The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

  George Q. Cannon

  Children, Blessing, Men

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer. "Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He's the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide." No response. "Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal.

  Brandon Mull

  Distance, Real, Sleep

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Clever, Winning, Government

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• It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

  Tom Stoppard

  Silly, Mean, Thinking

  "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Hands, Dear

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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

  Amy Tan

  Character, Thinking, Where You Are

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• I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Stuff, Kind

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.116, Penguin

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• Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, War, Teaching

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Belief, Strongest

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.485, Macmillan

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• As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

  Reza Aslan

  Journey, Mountain, Way

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• These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

  Gail Carriger

  Feelings, Lord

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• 1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

  Joan Crawford

  Fashion, Good Friend, Play

  Joan Crawford (2017). “My Way of Life”, p.79, Graymalkin Media

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• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

  Stevie Smith

  Depressing, Character, Interesting

  Stevie Smith, “Thoughts About The Person From Porlock”

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• This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

  Rene Descartes

  Memories, Judging, Perception

  Rene Descartes (1999). “Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy”, p.86, Hackett Publishing

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• You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Country, Sleep

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• On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Hands, Years

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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