Should Have Been Quotes

Should Have Been Quote of the day

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

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.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

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.

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."