Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it should be spread around

Eliezer Yudkowsky

That which the truth nourishes should thrive.

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.

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.

Aristotle

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

Aristotle

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Aristotle

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Ben Horowitz

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

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.

Damon Lindelof

I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Elizabeth Scott

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

Elias Canetti

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

Ben Stein

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Charles Bukowski

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Charles Bukowski

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

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.

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.

Brenda Ueland

Duty should be a byproduct.