Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachael Taylor

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

Preston Sturges

I should have had the pickle.

Pliny the Elder

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Philip Yancey

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

Moshe Dayan

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Elaine Stritch

I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can.

Joe Biden

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

Lilith Saintcrow

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

Lil Wayne

I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that.

Lawrence Summers

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Lewis Black

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

Joseph Stiglitz

Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

Joseph Campbell

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

Karl Popper

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

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.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

John Maynard Keynes

I should have drunk more Champagne.

John Locke

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

John Lithgow

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

John le Carre

You should have died when I killed you.

John le Carre

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

John Kluge

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

Juliet Marillier

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

Ovadia Yosef

We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

Martin Luther

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Martin Luther

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

Mark Tobey

Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.