Should Have Quotes

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.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

All Chess players should have a hobby

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

No one man should have all that power.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

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.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

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

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

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?"

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

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?

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

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Listen more than you talk.

What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."