W Quotes
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“We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”
“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.”
“We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.”
“We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.”
Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
“We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.”
“We should have a very limited federal government.”
“We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth.”
“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.”
“We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.”
“We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.”
“We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?”
“We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.”
“We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.”
Source: The Host
“We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.”
Source: A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
“We should have called truce, he'd said, brushing back his ink-black hair impatiently. We should have called truce long before this.
But neither of us called it, not then, not after.”
Source: The Wicked King
“We should have called truce, he'd said, brushing back his ink-black hair impatiently. We should have called truce long before this.
But neither of us called it, not then, not after.
Jude, he'd said, running a hand up my calf, are you afraid of me?”
Source: The Wicked King
“We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.”
“We should have communicated to Iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options. They're not just on the table, they are in our hands.”
“We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.”
“We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.”
“We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.”
“We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.”
“We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge”
“We should have learned by now not to be surprised by kittypets."
Graystripe”
Source: Bramblestar's Storm
“We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.”
“We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.”
“We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.”
“We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil.”
Source: Writings
“We should have peace in the difference in religious books as we do with the difference in language. Is there a wrong way to communicate?”
Source: True Blue
“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever”
Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.”
“We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.”
Source: Kartography
“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”
Source: Diplomatic Immunity
“We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.”
Source: Stay
“We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“We should have trown away your coach's letter the second we opened it," Kevin said. "Your file is deplorable and I don't want someone with your inexperience on our court. [...] Fortunately for you [Neil], your coach [...] sent us a tape so we could see you in action instead. You play like you have everything to lose. [...] That's the only kind of striker worth playing with.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.”
“We should help each other as opposed to letting each other fall apart.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.”
“We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage
“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”
“We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!”
“We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that “in May 1856, Count Kiselev, minister of state domains, informed officials in the Crimea that Alexander [tsar Alexander II] was interested in ‘cleansing’ (Kiselev used the verb oshishchat’) Crimea of as many Tatars as possible.” That the tsarist empire was interested in annexing foreign lands, but not in annexing foreign peoples, was expressed by the famous remark of a tsarist minister that “Russia needs Armenia, but she has no need of Armenians.” [192]”
Source: Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
“We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms”
Source: A Wreath for the Maidens
“We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.”
“We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.”
“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”