Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

Gillian Flynn

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

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.

Jeanne Moreau

You should not separate your life from what you do.

Gloria Gaynor

The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.

Gerald R. Ford

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

Jim Hodges

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

Jenny Lawson

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

Graham Taylor

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Hudson Taylor

If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?

Hubert H. Humphrey

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

Iris Murdoch

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Ilka Chase

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Igor Stravinsky

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Igor Stravinsky

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Idries Shah

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Idries Shah

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Hutton Gibson

Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.

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.

Immanuel Kant

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Ian Hart

Everyone should be good at what they do.

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.

Geraldine Ferraro

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Harry S Truman

The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

J. K. Rowling

If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

Grace Paley

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Ja Rule

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

George Herbert

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

George Herbert

Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.

Gene Kranz

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.