Behooves Quotes
32 Behooves quotes by 28 unique authors
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...
— Abraham Lincoln
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Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along…
— Alice Childress
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[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in…
— Roger Bacon
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
— William Safire
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.
— Peter Canisius
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to…
— Emma Goldman
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It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
— John Calvin
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At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in…
— Karl Mannheim
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We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be…
— Thomas McKean
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There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,…
— Albert Pike
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It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the…
— Robert Southey
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In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it…
— John Dewey
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Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent…
— George F. Kennan
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The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious…
— Ethel Smyth
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of…
— James F. Cooper
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And…
— James K. Morrow
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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
— Homer
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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture, it behooves me…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best…
— Ellis Peters
Who Wrote These Behooves Quotes
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