Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Blaise Pascal

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Blaise Pascal

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Audie Murphy

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

Carey Lowell

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

C. S. Lewis

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

Carroll O'Connor

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Alan Coren

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Ed McBain

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

Edward Norton

I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

Brian May

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

Brandon Sanderson

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Archilochus

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Barbara Kingsolver

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Bai Ling

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

Dennis Weaver

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

Dean Smith

You should just do the right thing.

Edgar Allan Poe

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Edgar Allan Poe

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Eduardo Chillida

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

Edvard Munch

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Edvard Munch

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.