Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Russell Ballard

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

John Bolton

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Taylor

And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God

John Sununu

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

John Redwood

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

James Inhofe

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

Shannen Doherty

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Natalie Merchant

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

Swami Vivekananda

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Peter Drucker

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Penn Jillette

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

Marnie Stern

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

Max McKeown

Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

John Fowles

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

John Flanagan

You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. “Would you?” he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. “No,” he admitted.

John Flanagan

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

Jonathan Kellerman

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

Jonathan Kozol

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

Jon Stewart

Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.

Jon Postel

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

Rachael Taylor

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

Preston Sturges

I should have had the pickle.

Pliny the Elder

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Philip Yancey

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

Moshe Dayan

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Pauline Kael

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

Eric Fischl

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

John Irving

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

John Hewson

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

John Ensign

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.