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Should Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
- Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to…
- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
- I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised…
- A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
- It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live…
- Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in…
- It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if…
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be…
- We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
- The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,…
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- 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
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — 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
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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 parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood