Should Have Been Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  F. Burton Howard

  Life, Growing Up, Moving

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• 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.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Should Have, Psychology

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• 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.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Order, Should Have, Situation

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• It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight

  Carlos E. Asay

  Morning, Future, Night

  Carlos E. Asay (1994). “The road to somewhere: a guide for young men and women”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Should Have, People, Holocaust

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• I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

  George Bernard Shaw

  Should Have, Taverns, Fool

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Lying, Men, Should Have

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• I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

  Whitney Cummings

  Fate, Men, Should Have

  "Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?" by Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. November 18, 2012.

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

  Joseph Barbera

  Should Have, Years, Impulsive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

  Peter Noone

  School, Successful, Hands

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• I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

  Lena Headey

  Beautiful, Hate, Nice

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• We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second week, there were 60, the third week, 53, and by the fourth week, 45. I've often joked that we worked it out at the time- we had only four and a half weeks left until there were no more people. It was about that time that we had our first ever commitment to Christ. We outgrew the school hall after 12 months. The crowds were so big that we were using road-case as the platform, and what should have been the stage as a balcony so that we could fit more people in.

  Brian Houston

  School, Commitment, Sunday

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• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  David Albert

  Should Have, Doe, Stories

  "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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

  Stephen Levine

  Should Have, Suffering, Might

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.3, Anchor

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Should Have, Literature, Unexpected

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• I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Should Have

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

  Neko Case

  Christian, Father, Should Have

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• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Simple, Should Have

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

  Kimberley Strassel

  Should Have, America, United States

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• This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Hands

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• Somebody who should have been born is gone.

  Anne Sexton

  Should Have, Abortion, Gone

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Real, Men

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

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

  Ray Walston

  Hands, Should Have, Careers

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