Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamais Cascio

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jacques Delors

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests...responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Horace Mann

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

Etta James

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Florence King

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

Florence Welch

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Ferran Adria

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

Fern Britton

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

George Harrison

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Frank Oz

Jim (Henson) should have ****in¿ fired me several times...

Chris Rock

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

Chris Hardwick

Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.

Christine Baranski

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Christine Feehan

And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

Christine Feehan

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

George W. Bush

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Jeffrey Bewkes

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

Jean Rostand

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jez Butterworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

Harold Wilson

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Hale Irwin

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Iggy Pop

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

Ian Mckellen

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

George R. R. Martin

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Jean Cocteau

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

Frederic Raphael

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Ezra Taft Benson

From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent. The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

Francis Collins

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

Jean-Luc Godard

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.