Should Have Quotes

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.

Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.