Famous Quotes & Sayings

Galileo Galilei

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

Eric Church

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Eoin Colfer

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

George Herbert

He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]

Chris Hardwick

Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.

Christine Keeler

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christine Baranski

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Christine Feehan

And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

Christine Feehan

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Christian Wiman

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No one should live beyond 30

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.

Gail Tsukiyama

Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.

Frederic Raphael

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

Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Ezra Taft Benson

From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent. The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

Euripides

A woman should always stand by a woman.

Francis Collins

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

Dusty Baker

Sometimes when you're 40 years old, it taps you on the shoulder and it's time to get out.

Erwin McManus

Truth should never travel faster than love.

Florence King

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

Florence Welch

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

Flann O'Brien

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Ferran Adria

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

Fern Britton

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

Helen Keller

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

Cassandra Clare

I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63

George Eliot

I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.

Alan Curbishley

Spector popped his shoulder out - he went straight to hospital.

Ernest Thompson Seton

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.