Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.[Homer Simpson] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] Quote:A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.[Dave Barry] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.[Archibald MacLeish] Quote:You should do your own car repairs. It's an easy way to save money and possibly maim yourself for life.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[Dave Barry] Quote:You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle] Quote:Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.[Laurence Peter] Quote:I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.[Lauren Bacall] Quote:This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.[Mark Twain] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[Yogi Berra] Quote:We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.[Socrates] Quote:I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.[Douglas Adams] Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.[Dick Hubbard] Quote:Women should be obscene and not heard.[Groucho Marx] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't![George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns -- he should be drawn and quoted.[Fred Allen] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.[Robertson Davies] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.[Mark Twain] Quote:Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Even the poor should give something to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald] Quote:Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:War should be the only study of a prince.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.[Jack Handey] Quote:We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.[John Adams] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.[Dick Vertleib] Quote:Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.[Ted Williams] Quote:Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.[Joe Theismann] Quote:One should never know too precisely whom one has married.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. [Jack London] Quote:If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams] Quote:The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. [Thomas Carlyle] Quote:Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. [Phyllis Diller] Quote:Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. [Charles Dickens] Quote:I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. [Bette Davis] Quote:I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. [Bette Davis] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. [Robert Graves] Quote:First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. [Margaret Mead] Quote:A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. [Dante Alighieri] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus] Quote:Judgement, not passion should prevail. [Epictetus] Quote:Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. [Albert Einstein] Quote:People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. [Brendan Francis] Quote:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. [Thucydides] Quote:You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. [Juvenal] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. [Richard Feynman] Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Definitions of: shouldDefinition: Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. |
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