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“You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.”
“You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.”
Source: The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...
“You should not have to feel personally offended in order to know that something is offensive.”
“You should not have to rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole.”
“You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. Hotel service is embarrassing. Maids, waiters, bellhops, porters and so forth are the most embarrassing people in the world for they continually remind you of inequities which we accept as the proper thing. The sight of an ancient woman, gasping and wheezing as she drags a heavy pail of water down a hotel corridor to mop up the mess of some drunken overprivileged guest, is one that sickens and weighs upon the heart and withers it with shame for this world in which it is not only tolerated but regarded as proof positive that the wheels of Democracy are functioning as they should without interference from above or below. Nobody should have to clean up anybody else’s mess in this world. It is terribly bad for both parties, but probably worse for the one receiving the service.”
“You should not,” he said quietly, “trust me.”
“Because you give admittance to the notion that you are not trustworthy?” she said with some surprise.
“Because I would not myself trust a faceless man in a silver cloak dining at the scarlet table of a castle of chandeliers with more questions than answers.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
“You should not judge; you should understand.”
“You should not live in known dishonest states.”
“You should not live one way in private, another in public.”
“You should not live your life in fear of what they might do post breakup. You’re not responsible for their actions.”
“You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should
look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged
down about people's pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allaah,
“You created me from fire and you created him from clay”.”
“You should not make people feel like you are doing them a favor when you are doing your job.”
“You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.”
“You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it has been propounded by yourself. You should try to prove it or disprove it.”
“You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.”
“You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.”
“You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”
Source: Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
“You should not separate your life from what you do.”
“You should not sorrow for that which was bound to happen. Those who are wise do not feel sorry over fate. Even with the greatest wisdom, that which is ordained will happen. No one can transgress the path that has been laid down. Time brings existence and non-existence, pleasure and pain. Time creates all elements and time destroys all beings. Time burns all subjects and it is time that extinguishes the fire. Time alone is awake when everything is asleep. Time cannot be conquered. Time walks in all elements, pervasive and impartial. Knowing that everything, past, present and future, is created by time, it is not appropriate that you should be consumed by grief.”
Source: The Mahabharata
“You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.”
“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.”
Source: A Selection of Poems
“You should not take more than you need”
“You should not take more than you nees”
“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.”
Source: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
“You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.”
“You should not take your intuitions at face value.”
“You should not think on a small scale”
“You should not think on a small scale, you are a gift to the entire planet earth”
“You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.”
Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist
“You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.”
Source: Parents and children
“You should not water the ground if all that you see are weeds.”
“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”
“You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul.”
“You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.”
“You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy. That content, all-is-well-with-my-soul happy. It's the thing you would do for free, and if you do it, you actually become hugely successful and make a lot of money, because the universe is going to send you the resources.”
“You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.”
“You should only be scared of your imagination because it'll haunt you at night”
“You should only belong to those who can appreciate your beautiful soul.”
“You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.”
“You should only expect something from your efforts.”
“You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.”
“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“You should open a shop, Geppetto. A toy shop. I can already imagine what joy you'd bring to the children."
"A toy shop?" Geppetto pretended he'd never dreamt of such a thing. "Oh, no, no. There's no future for a toy maker here."
"Is that you speaking," said Chiara softly, "or your father?"
It astounded him how easily she saw into his heart. No one had said that to him before. Was that why the fairies had come to her, because she could read his dreams and the fears that hindered them?”
Source: When You Wish Upon a Star
“You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...”
Source: Doors of the mind
“You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.”
Source: Into the Wild
“You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.”