Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

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

Plato

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Paula Danziger

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

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.

Matt Salmon

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

Merlin Olsen

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Mary Augusta Ward

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Michel Martelly

The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

Ted Cruz

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

Margaret Sanger

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

Morgan Freeman

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'.

Marcel Proust

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Joseph Barbera

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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.

Larry Holmes

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

Jacob Zuma

African problems should have African solutions.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

Mahatma Gandhi

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Emo Philips

If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.

Joko Beck

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Johnny Weir

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.

Loni Anderson

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on the climate, but the numbers indicate that effect is relatively minor.

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.

Stephen Levine

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Scott Adams

I should have written that down. - Dilbert