Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norah Jones

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

Nora Roberts

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—” “Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.

Nora Roberts

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip

Nikola Tesla

All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

Morris Kline

Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

John Wycliffe

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

John Wooden

Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

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.

John Ruskin

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

John Owen

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

Mitch Albom

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Miguel de Cervantes

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

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.

Joan Robinson

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

Francois Fenelon

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Elaine Stritch

I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.

Joe Biden

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

Lou Reed

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

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.

Lilith Saintcrow

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

Lil Wayne

I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that.

Lawrence Summers

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Lewis Black

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

Joseph Stiglitz

Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

Joseph Campbell

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'