Best would-be & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.”

Ifs World Should Important Would Be Asks Shots Important Things Dry Korean Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Billy Eichner

“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Said Two Done Would Be Wanted Past Millions Months Deserve Convinced Convincing My Past Two Months Macho Why Me Hairspray

Author:John Travolta

“The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

Ifs Thinking Should Would Be Musician Perfection Seasons Praise Crow Geese Nightingales Larks Wrens

Author:William Shakespeare

“Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.”

Should Light Seems Would Be Results Shadow Difficulty Finished Boundaries Defined

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.”

Ifs World Should Would Be Clear Drink Streams Pet Giver Pulse Temperance

Book:Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

Source: Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

“Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.”

Should Facts Would Be Belief Moral Prove Acknowledge Assumption Dependent Factual Moral Beliefs

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions - either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy - in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.”

Thinking Way Should Children Would Be Order Birth Late Thirds Abortion Appropriate Pregnancy Abnormal Screening Embryos

Author:Ian Wilmut

“In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.”

Should Enough Would Be Individual Responsibility Should Have Collectives Dictatorship Spain Collective Responsibility

Author:Federica Montseny

“If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.”

Ifs Should Doe Would Be Care Mines Painting Masters Please Satisfaction Suits I Care Dealer Please Me

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.”

World Should Years Littles Would Be Science Courses Study Four Should Have Mathematics University Physics Satisfied Greek Latin Chemistry New World Four Years Geology Wisconsin Botany

Book:Essential Muir

Source: Essential Muir

“Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.”

Should Would Be Purpose Order Teaching Absurd Jail Sole Arrested Beggar

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties”

People Ifs Giving Should Children Would Be Dangerous Son Holy Female Difficulty Ghost Elders Holy Ghost Begets

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.”

Men Should Wells Persons Stories Would Be Design Development Directors Musician Ideals Productions Units Entering Donate Layout

Author:Walt Disney

“...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.”

Thinking Should Would Be Dies Dying Bed Refuse Generous Feds Delicate Portions Pie Delicate Life

Book:Cross Creek Cookery

Source: Cross Creek Cookery

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.”

Inspirational Should Bigs Would Be Enjoy Walks Break Rocks Scene Ocean Wave Scary Beach Covered Ladders Moss Big Sur Crashing Waves

Author:Trent Reznor

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

Ifs Men Should Long Country Government Would Be Law Force Powerful Doubt Groups Judging Citizens Safe Constitution Court Threat Neighbor Command Entitled Prominent Unruly Boisterous

Author:John F. Kennedy

“That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.”

Should Would Be Industry Holy Russia Triumph Contradiction Empires Marxism Roman Empire Marxist

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.”

Should War Stories Would Be My Own Lord Tree Details Finished Rings Certainty Analysis Explanation Horizon Occupation Short Story

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!”

Way Should Would Be Guy Arms Walking Training Come Up Like Me Gym Inches Toms Fifteen Curls Squat

Author:Lee Priest

“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”

Ifs Should Would Be Simple Lord Our Lives Simplicity Sunshine Sweetness Our Love

Book:Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber

Source: Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber

“The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.”

Ifs Should Body Would Be Law Pleasure Exercise Consequence Court Judgement Substitution

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.”

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“If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.”