Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Welch

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Ferran Adria

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

Fern Britton

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

George Bernard Shaw

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment ...

George Bernard Shaw

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

George Bernard Shaw

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

Gena Showalter

Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.

Galileo Galilei

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

Emma Bonino

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

Eminem

I really should have fell but I stood

Jay Asher

I left. When I should have stayed.

Jasper Fforde

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

Hillary Clinton

If you get arrested, you`re supposed to know why you`re arrested. So, Freddie Gray should have known why he was arrested. His friends, his family, his community, they should have known what he was charged with, why he was arrested. And the police should have come out with that right away.

Jack Ma

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Jack Ma

The very important thing you should have is patience.

J. D. Hayworth

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Poppy Montgomery

I should have been a stuntwoman.

Neil Tennant

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

Noam Chomsky

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Mike Myers

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

John Green

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

John Green

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

John Green

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

Jay Leno

House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.

Jay Leno

One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

Jay Leno

We are in a code orange. Homeland Security said earlier today that everyone should have a roll of duct tape and plastic sheeting to protect your house in event of terrorist attacks. Who came up with this idea? MacGyver?

Marianne Faithfull

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

Ned Vizzini

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

Naomi Weisstein

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

Millicent Fenwick

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Mike Thompson

Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.