Should Have Quotes

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

Every ship should have a cat.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

I should have more vanity.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.