We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most...
I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- William J. Clinton
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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)
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 was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
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
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
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
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
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.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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