Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy L. Sayers

It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

Donald Rumsfeld

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

Donald Miller

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

Anne Sexton

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

Andre Kostelanetz

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

Andrew Fastow

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Alice Cooper

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

E. M. Forster

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

Adam Lambert

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

Andre Gide

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

Amy Clampitt

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Angela Ahrendts

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

Anatoly Chubais

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Anne F. Beiler

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Anita Roddick

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

Andrew Young

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Christopher Paolini

Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.

Christopher Moore

Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please.

Angelina Jolie

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

Amy Brenneman

I should have more vanity.

Angelo Dundee

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

Cicely Tyson

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one

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.

Ezra Pound

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

William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Billy Collins

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

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.

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.