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Should Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to…
- If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our…
- I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore…
- When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its…
- Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are…
- It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to…
- If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
- To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.
- If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created…
- Why should your heart not dance?
- All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died…
- If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I…
- If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my…
- I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
- All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
- Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
- We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It…
More Should Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe