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“How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.”

Should Bits Tree Stones Sooner Or Later Pruning

Book:mr. fortune's maggot

Source: mr. fortune's maggot

“For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.”

Should Use Light Stones Burning Sparks Pipe Shepherds Radiance Dazzle Women Beauty

Author:Joan Miro

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

Needs Should Self House Behinds Brain Materials Stones Meetings Ghost Encounters Host Interiors Midnight Chamber Concealed Confronting Corridors Lonesome Surpassing Abbey

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

Men Way Should May Country Eye Courses House Strong Built Stones Foundation Sufficient Temples Iron Orthodox Leisure Infidel Inspectors Hatchet Maharashtra

Author:Aurangzeb

“Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.”

Should Has Beens Together Poor Results Cities Wonderful Century Built Stones Should Have London Bricks Should Have Been Picturesque

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Said Enough Would Be Earth Force Virtue Degrees Stones Distance Resistance Attractive Sensible

Author:Johannes Kepler

“The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.”

Should Humans Has Beens Law Used Heaven Taken Mass Stones Victim Slavery Monsters Used To Be Confused Savages Royalty Feudalism Thunderbolts

Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.”

Should Firsts Lasts Practice Stones Criticism Censure

Book:Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.”

Should Ends Girl Five Stones Twenties Fingers Indifferent Handsome Twenty One Girlhood Chalk

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”

Should Wells May Sound Voice Loss Sleep Cities Watches Stones Miles Lifts Clock Ministers Prophet Sinner Bells Preaching Alarms Trumpets Sentinels Pomegranates

Author:Joseph Hall

“Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.”

Want Should Action Faith Water Building Elements Stones Bases Foundation Very Good Fishes Good Actions

Author:Owen Feltham

“I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.”

Thinking Should Play Character Sleep Roles Streets Wall Stones Idiot Turned Down Never Sleep

Author:Michael Cera

“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”

Men Giving Should May Home Beautiful Easy Technology Fit Offers Stones Wings Spots Dust Prisoner Transition Toil Worms Bricks Pilgrimage Timber

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.”

People Thinking Should Government Kids Fighting Streets Drug Stones Driven Related Belonging Better Place Places To Live Paving Fighting Each Other

Author:Ashley Walters

“No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.”

Should Home Left Sin Members Stones Hinduism Family Members Untouchability

Book:To the Perplexed

Source: To the Perplexed

“Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Deserve Stones Diamond Precious Stones

Author:Nia Long

“I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.”

Thinking Should Wish Fans Stones Deny Massive Leggings

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.”

Should Years Wells Made Said House Lord Ought Stones Should Have Rounds Legs Noble Noses Nonsense Pigs Castles Provinces Pork Spectacles Best House

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.”

“I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.”

Should Real Stories Care Given Bits Behinds Stones Don't Care Saved Eras I Don't Care Chips Tourists Victorian Victorian Era Chisels Real Story Uninterested Stonehenge Victorian Times

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.”

Source: Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

“They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.”

Knows World Should Stones Stores Spoil Nobody Knows Wilson

Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“When something is done, it should be done the way a stone bridge that lives thousands of years is done!”

Way Should Years Done Stones Bridges

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.”

Should May Littles Character Might Joy Cases Path Ambition Stones Adversity Prosperity Prophecy Foe Acquaintance True Friend Precious Things Traverse

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181

“ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.”

Thinking Want Should Wells Helping Age Ought Stones Bombs Rejects Isis Modernity Stone Age

Author:Ted Cruz

“There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.”

People Should House Situation Policy Behavior Stones Glasses Throwing Housing Glass Houses

Author:Demetri Martin

“Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.”

Ifs Should Years Said Done Happens Lasts Remember Position Office Stones Should Have Bills Clinton Eight Admire Interviews Marijuana Rolling Rolling Stones

Author:Bill Maher

“The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.”

Way Should Jobs Next Steps Standards Stones Definitions Improvement Best Way Next Steps

Author:Masaaki Imai

“I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?”

Ifs Thinking Should Goes On Stones Bigger Why Not Stepping Stones Bigger And Better

Author:Kai Greene

“So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.”

Should Long Seems Belief Views Accepting Stones Mere Versions Sufficient Reasonable Relevant Accurate Inquiry Stepping Stones

Author:Gail Fine

“My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone.”

People Needs Should Humans Belief Objects Kissing Weakness Stones Filled Islam Devotion Bows Fulfilled Vacuums Personal Beliefs Stampede

Author:Asghar Ali Engineer

“I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.”

Should Reason Waste Stones Reason Why No Reason Wasting Time Bronze

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO”

Should Heart Earth Dies Cutting Battle Ego Glory Stones Sacred Banner Portal Beacons Forts

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”

People World Should Firsts Stills Might Form Social Rocks Ideals Stones Scientist Method Traits Autism Severe Caves Spears Campfire Ideal World

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection

“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”

Should Trying Two House Bird Stones Glasses Glass Houses Two Birds

Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.”

Knows Men Way Life Should May Sometimes Speak Stars Animal Sky Flower Terrible Stones Absurd Behave Beast Prey Embarrassment Stars In The Sky

Author:Hermann Hesse

“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”

Source: Selected poems

“The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.”

Ifs Needs Should Littles Said Sometimes Hard Law Sleep Brother Comfort Horror Eating Weapons Stones Clubs Possession Curious Bishops Stunning Hard Life Little Brother Shrewdness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.”

Should Years Firsts Said Two Grows Perfect Five Wall Mom Fit Battle Weakness Stones Should Have Giants Five Years Daddy Curves Perfect Fit

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”

Thinking Men Should Believe Humans Has Beens Facts Moving Desire Wish Causes Knowing Capable Conscious Stones Determined Ignorant Endeavor Continuing Indifferent Boast Human Freedom

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.”

“You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...”

Ifs Should Faces House Causes Watches Break Mouths Stones Glasses Rap Cents Glass Houses

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”

Should Ends Known Stones Should Have Facility Dungeons Should Have Known Scolded

Book:Working For The Devil: The Dante Valentine Novels: Book One

Source: Working For The Devil: The Dante Valentine Novels: Book One

“I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.”

Knows Should Heart Said Done Stones Should Have Heavy

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?”

Knows Should Said Would Be Beautiful Chance Effort Easier Determination Stones Wake Up Heavy Love Someone Lifting Loving You Loving Someone Effortless

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils. Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.”

Ifs Should Looks May Art Home Dark Fire Sea Devil Stones Foundation Lifetime Fingers Storm Forests Worn Coast One Love Handful Remnants Granite Haggard Cypresses

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers