Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

J. K. Rowling

If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

Grace Paley

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Ja Rule

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

George Herbert

Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.

Gene Kranz

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

Gloria Gaynor

The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.

Gerald R. Ford

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

Hudson Taylor

If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?

Hubert H. Humphrey

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Horace Mann

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

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.

Ginger Baker

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

Lou Reed

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

John Fowles

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

John Flanagan

You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. “Would you?” he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. “No,” he admitted.

John Flanagan

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

Jonathan Kellerman

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

Jon Stewart

Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.

Jon Postel

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Pauline Kael

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.