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“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

People Needs Should Writing Believe Looks Play Character Would Be Able I Believe Social Challenges Lines Views Class Crosses Males Gender Point Of View Good Writers Social Class Chameleon

Author:Marisha Pessl

“It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.”

Should Important Government Understanding Party Benefits Crosses Academia

Author:Nicholas Stern

“It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.”

Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up

“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.”

Should Heart Crosses Hypocrisy Scorn Saviour Yoke

Book:The Poems and Ballads of Schiller

Source: The Poems and Ballads of Schiller

“There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!”

Should Littles Lasts Night Water Rooms Daughter Crosses Curious Crafts Sunday My Daughter Laughed Inches Port Moors Sunday Night Babyhood

Author:George Washington

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”

“Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.”

Should Made Father Born Sin Steps Sacrifice Blood Example Son Offers All Things Crosses Blessed Leaving Glorious Altars Blood Sacrifice

Book:Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.”

“The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it.”

“The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.”

Should Sex Fashion Havens Taste Crosses Firm Bathroom Dressings

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.”

Feels Should Firsts Looks Different States Brain Information Crosses Dating Practicals Portions Small Business Intuitive Loan Examination First Date Anesthesia

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.”

Feels Should Children Made Kids Attitude Crosses Cracks Assets Dictator Irrelevant Benevolent Parental Benign Negligence

Author:Clare Balding

“I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.”

Should Stills Dream Night Sleep Saws Crosses Nightmare Going To Sleep Ingrates

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!”

Way Should Humans Persons God Death Jesus Christ Religious Human Beings Glory Crosses Embrace Missionary

Author:Paris Reidhead

“Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?”

Should Ocean Rivers Crosses Miles Sail

Author:Shimon Peres

“People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.”

People Ifs Should Able Cities Gun Crosses Conviction Borders Illegal Sanctuary Felony Pending

Author:Eric Bolling

“Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I'm gonna cross that one off. That's stupid.”

Needs Should Play Humor Funny Fun Goal Stupid Clothes Crosses Ridiculous Ukulele Need Money

Author:Kristen Schaal

“The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we can't comprehend it. In the same way our spiritual pastors suffer for us, although we often don't see their suffering. The greater the love of the pastor, the greater his suffering; and we, the sheep, should understand this, and love and honor our pastors.”

Way Inspirational Should Christian Past Spiritual Suffering Religious Lord Greater Honor Crosses And Love Orthodox Sheep Our Past Pastor Love And Honor

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.”

Should Years Ideas Political Years Ago Argument Crosses Decided Slave Hearing Favors Holes Bunch Dressers

Author:Scott Adams

“I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.”

Men Should I Can War Country Crosses Soldier Civil War Anxious Good Soldiers

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.”

Should Asks Mistake Heard Crosses Ask Me Sensibility Adapting Emma

Author:Andrew Davies

“The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.”

Should Mind Soul Action Night Jesus Wish Christ Church Fronts Terrible Cost Bed Weapons Devil Jesus Christ Crosses Get Up Recalls Tempted Juncture

Author:John Vianney

“In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city's high level of craziness - something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.”

“I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.”

People Thinking Should Persons Book House Brain Crosses Photograph Lifestyle Collections Sections Website Spine

Author:Phil Elvrum

“It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.”

People Should Persons Crosses Forgiving Wicked Agony

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.”

People Should Done Use Law Fall Force Easy Term Pay Demand Economics Crosses Raises Zero Fewer Quantity Crossings Hiroshima Rationalize Use Of Force

Author:Bryan Caplan

“My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.”

Ifs Should Bigs Three Hell Streets Walking One Day My Friends Crosses Excuse Quitting Smoke Faster Idiot Smoking Bus Cigarette Should I Packs Kill Me I Quit Quit Smoking

Author:Gregg Rogell

“Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .”

Men Should Doe Soul Whole Past Masters Judgment Highest Crosses Eternity Sight Adam Good Work Doing Good Crossings Future Time Judgment Day Crossing Over

Author:Meister Eckhart

“...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?”

“Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?”

Thinking Should Lord Crosses Our Lord Deserving

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.”

Should Problem Common Democracy Movement Crosses Strategy Borders Greek Refugee Launching

Author:Yanis Varoufakis

“I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.”

Way Should Looks War Hard Eye History Crosses Strategy France Liberation Operations Germany

Author:George C. Marshall

“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?”

People Thinking Knows Should Has Beens Government Remember Individual Half Records Fire Information Crosses Should Have Good Things Clinton Caught Email Transparency Should Have Been

Author:Jill Stein

“As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.”

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Author:Geert Wilders

“Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'”

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Author:Angus Young

“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”

“No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.”

World Should Persons Walks Crosses God's Love

Book:Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch

Source: Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch

“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.”

Should Matter Home Seems Together Faces Taken Crosses Series Corners Arguing Multitudes Belts No Point Threshold

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.”

“We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.”

Should Suffering Turns Christ Crosses Cherish Pondering

Author:John Piper

“Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.”

Knows Should Wanted Sleep Mom Crosses Instruments Bones Dressings Your Mom Simon Lewis

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!”

“Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.”

Thinking Should Trying Mean Today Crosses Lists Riding Items Propose Empresses

Author:Sarah MacLean

“Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.”

Should War Lines Crosses

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!”

Should Kissing Crosses Nerves Permission Anubis

Author:Rick Riordan

“He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time.” “Yeah, but this isn’t—” I couldn’t argue with him looking at me like that. “I have to go. Wait… you didn’t take the cross.” I held it out to him. He shook his head. “Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.”

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Author:Richelle Mead

“The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.”

Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God