Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

Mahatma Gandhi

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Matt Salmon

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

Plato

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Paula Danziger

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

Kelley Armstrong

I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

Kurt Cobain

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Khalil Gibran

When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Norman Ralph Augustine

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Emo Philips

If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.

Helen Fielding

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Emeril Lagasse

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Tony Bennett

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Tony Blair

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

Tony Blair

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

Rita Coolidge

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Rihanna

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Terry Pratchett

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Marcia Angell

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Peter Schiff

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Peter Hook

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

Jacob Zuma

African problems should have African solutions.

Nancy Reagan

Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

Morgan Freeman

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'.

Marcel Proust

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Joseph Barbera

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.