Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Radcliffe

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

Peter Schiff

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Peter Hook

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Suzanne Brockmann

If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

Suzanne Collins

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

Stephen Levine

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

Stephen King

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Stanley Fish

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Stephenie Meyer

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

Stephenie Meyer

You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

Marcia Angell

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Shannen Doherty

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Natalie Merchant

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

Swami Vivekananda

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Tony Bennett

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Tony Blair

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

Tony Blair

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

Rita Coolidge

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Rihanna

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

Toni Morrison

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

Tommy Douglas

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tom Stoppard

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Toby Keith

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

Tony Kushner

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

Stephen Hawking

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us

Shakira

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

Steve Williams

My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again...

Susan Minot

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

Summer Sanders

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

Robbie Lawler

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.