Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Fastow

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

Ally Carter

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

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.

Bootsy Collins

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

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.

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.

Beverly Johnson

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

Eartha Kitt

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.

Barney Frank

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Edmund Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Benjamin Franklin

Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act. Actions speak louder than words. Don't complain about things, change things.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

Bela Fleck

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Diane Arbus

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

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.

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.

Frederic Bastiat

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

Deb Caletti

We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

Dennis Kozlowski

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

Eamon

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

Aaron Tveit

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

Aaron Sorkin

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

Charlotte Bronte

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

Charlotte Bronte

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...

Charles Spurgeon

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

Caitlin Moran

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.