Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rostand

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jez Butterworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

George Santayana

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

George W. Bush

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

George W. Bush

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George R. R. Martin

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Jean Cocteau

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

Frederic Raphael

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Jeffrey Bewkes

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

Jean-Luc Godard

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Jim Gilmore

Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.

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.

Jenny Lawson

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

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?

Ilka Chase

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Igor Stravinsky

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Igor Stravinsky

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Idries Shah

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

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.

Merlin Olsen

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Mary Augusta Ward

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Nancy Reagan

Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

Morgan Freeman

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'.

Marcel Proust

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Joseph Barbera

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Miguel de Cervantes

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.