Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Aaron Tveit

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

Aaron Sorkin

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

Charlotte Bronte

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

Charlotte Bronte

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...

Charlotte Bronte

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

William Shakespeare

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

William Shakespeare

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

Bill Maher

What's going to be hard for the United States is that our policy for a long time has been a two-state solution; the Palestinians should have their own state. Now, the Palestinians are going to the U.N. and saying, 'We're having the U.N. vote to say we have our own state. Well, if that's your policy, United States of America, why are you vetoing it?' Which we will do.

Bill Ayers

In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.

Betty Ford

Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.

Bill Gates

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

Bill Gates

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Charles Lindbergh

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

William Shakespeare

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

William Shakespeare

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

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.

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.

Bootsy Collins

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Antonin Scalia

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.