Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Goleman

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Elizabeth Scott

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

Elias Canetti

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Brian May

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

Charles Bukowski

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Charles Bukowski

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Aristotle

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

Aristotle

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Ben Horowitz

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

Ally Carter

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

Adam Lambert

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

Alfred Rosenberg

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

Albert Einstein

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Jane Austen

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Jamie Redknapp

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

Carey Lowell

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Alan Coren

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Antonin Scalia

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Edward Norton

I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

Conan O'Brien

Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.

E. W. Howe

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Andy Roddick

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

Daniel Kahneman

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

D. H. Lawrence

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

D. H. Lawrence

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

Don Johnson

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

Don Yaeger

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.