“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.” KnowsWorldShouldMindLooksMadeEndsRememberBitsSinPoorClearSawsTroubleTasteCreaturesMouthsConscienceShould HaveFellowsCastsHeavyEmsMischiefBreedingWorkmanship Book:Works Source: Works
“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.” IfsShouldHas BeensSeemsGivenAttentionClearDevelopmentShould HaveTransformationFundamentalsGenderQueensAccomplishedThronesSovereignReignRulingMonarchyShould Have BeenMonarchsVictoriaBritish HistoryEmasculation Author:David Cannadine
“To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.” ShouldSongClearVictoryConscienceShould HaveDefeatTriumphClear Conscience Book:Works Source: Works
“John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.” WayGivingShouldFunClearWeekFrontsInternetRepublicanFindingsShould HaveDenyHeatTreatmentRunnersOld FashionedRumorBrowsJohn KerryBotox Author:Bill Maher
“I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldI CanIdeasProblemLyingNightHateSleepClearEffectsBearsConscienceShould HaveI HateInjusticeActressesYesterdayLabelsStayingClosetsPersonal LifeClear Conscience Author:Amber Heard
“But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.” ShouldBelievePartyClearPositionShould HaveDon't BelieveSexualityCampaignsAbortionHomosexuality Author:Stephen Harper
“There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever condone the use of ReddiWhip on pie.” ShouldMindFirstsUsePresidentVoiceChurchUnitedClearOne ThingShould HaveTwelvePieThanksgivingPresidency Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.” ShouldFirstsStatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesClearShould HaveMissionsObjectivesDiplomacy Author:Mike Thompson
“In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.” PeopleShouldPhilosophySidesDifferencesPartyClearVictoryShould HaveInstitutionsAgreementIrelandNorthern Ireland Author:John Hume
“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.” IfsShouldBelieveValuesI BelieveSocialUnderstandingResultsClearFieldsDevelopmentPhotographyAspectShould HaveCamerasHistoricalProductionsWorthyObjectivesMediumsSensibilityOrientation Author:Tina Modotti
“I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.” ShouldBelieveUnderstandingPartyClearPeriodsStandardsShould HaveManagementEngagedEtcAppropriateMeasurementTime PeriodsUnderstanding Why Author:Warren Buffett
“I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingWellsChildrenFatherChallengesPartyKnownLeaderClearOne DayShould HaveArguingCriticizeAlways Arguing Author:Indira Gandhi
“It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.” ShouldWarReligiousLinesClearAreasShould HaveSyriaGeographySectsReligious WarsDemography Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldYearsMadeFactsShowsMightMovingClearRight NowShould HaveLeavingRetirementRetiringImpressedMoved OnAnnouncementsFunny Retirement Author:Regis Philbin
“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” IfsNeedsShouldWritingMindFirstsOrderGrowthClearUnderstoodShould HaveVersesDesksIncentives Author:C. S. Lewis
“I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.” FeelsShouldI CanHomeNightGivenStarsTermTalkingForeverClearSkyShould HaveBeggingSourObnoxious Book:Live for a Living Source: Live for a Living
“Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.” IfsMenShouldSaidEyeFacesMotherCoursesNamesWhiteClearHeardMinesExpressionColdMarriedShould HaveBreathsBlueWideCeaseFixedHis EyesGrayShadowhuntersPuffCharlotte Author:Cassandra Clare
“Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of natural evolution, for in that case the perfect flower of humanity should have appeared at the end of human history and not in the middle of it.” ShouldHumansDoeEndsChristianHumanityJesusChristNaturalPerfectCasesClearMiddleFlowerTheoryEvolutionFitJesus ChristShould HaveHuman HistoryHumanistic Author:Loraine Boettner
“The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.” PeopleWorldShouldBelieveSelfFeelingsLife IsMy OwnClearRightsPeriodsReflectionShould HaveEarsFundamentalsDon't BelieveCalmRingsLoudThoughtfulSuicidalMy Own LifeFree SocietyLove AlwaysWendyFundamental Rights Author:Wendy O. Williams
“It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.” IfsMenShouldChildrenTwoLastsScienceOrderClearFiveCenturyDogShould HaveScientistPopulationEvery ManMen WomenMagnitudeDoomsday Author:Derek J. de Solla Price