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We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Unlike presidential administrations,
problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I honor you, Hero, for you do not play to the crowd.
You play to your own soul.
An audience of one fills the house with its appreciation and applause.
Others follow you, and may attempt to emulate you,
but that is not why you are a hero.
Fame may smile upon you, or it may not.
The world may cheer your name, or you may be the unknown warrior
who rescued comrades in battle,
or taught a young girl how to shed tears of joy.
Whatever you did, you did not do for fame.
If you had, you would not be a Hero.
You are a Hero for your bold courageous inspired action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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