Should Quotes - Page 19

• Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.

  Louise Rennison

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• ...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Should Have, Names

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, People, Mets

  "Shopaholic Abroad". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2001.

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• Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

  Gail Carriger

  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

  Roald Dahl

  Years, Onions, Sage

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.80, Penguin

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• We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

  Susan Cain

  Book, Thoughtful, Play

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Party, Boys, Long

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• Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Communication, Mean, Use

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• I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reading, Thinking, Reader

  Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Jorge Luis Borges, Anglo-Argentine Society (1988). “In memory of Borges”, Not Avail

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• I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Smart, Stupid, Thinking

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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• If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

  R.K. Narayan

  Daughter, Mother, Law

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.88, Penguin Books India

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• One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Giving, Bird

  "The Idiot".

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• In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

  Dean Koontz

  Hurt, Real, Book

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• It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Responsibility, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Everyday, Hours, Minutes

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• And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thinking, Opposites, Cards

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jun 24, 2013

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• Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg." "That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Arrows, Spy

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• Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Essentials, Elements, Care

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• It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Weed, Should Have, Tree

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.252, Scholastic Inc.

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• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jesus, Powerful, Hero

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.11, Penguin

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• There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Like Love, Trying

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Needs, Apologizing, Figures

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

  Neal Shusterman

  Book, School, Average

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• Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sweet, Eye, Gentleman

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• There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Determination, Loving Someone

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