Should Have Quotes

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

At the end of the day it is just a movie and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

They should have focused more on me.

My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Only the police should have handguns.

No one should have to grieve alone.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Nora: I have questions. Patch: I should have known you've only been keeping me around for answers. Nora: Well, that and your kisses. Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been