Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

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.

Joe Manchin

If you`re wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

Mahatma Gandhi

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Emily Bronte

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Emily Dickinson

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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.

Reese Witherspoon

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

Robert A. Heinlein

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

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.

Radhanath Swami

A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

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.

Savannah Guthrie

I should get a manicure more often.

Laurie Anderson

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Theresa May

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

Therese of Lisieux

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

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.

Sheldon Adelson

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Sharad Pawar

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Lady Bird Johnson

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

Marcus Aurelius

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

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 Thiel

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

Peter Kreeft

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

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.