Should Have Been Quotes - Page 9

• I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

  Marcel Proust

  Should Have, Should, Has Beens

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

  Chuck Hagel

  Thinking, Should Have, Done

  "Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam". www.cnn.com. August 18, 2005.

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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• It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

  John Hench

  Successful, Thinking, Artist

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• If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.

  Ayn Rand

  Struggle, Men, Should Have

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• 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.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Beautiful, Should Have, May

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.105

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• As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

  L. Frank Baum

  Reality, Should Have, Years

  Letter to Frank Joslyn Baum, September 1918.

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• 'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

  Michael Patrick King

  Girl, Sex, Cities

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• 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.

  Don Yaeger

  Should Have, Example, Politician

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• I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Should Have, Calling

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• In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

  Moshe Dayan

  Should Have, Two, Defense

  Private conversation with Rami Tal (1976), as quoted in Associated Press report, May 11, 1997.

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• I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

  Lee Konitz

  Player, Should Have, Horny

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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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• Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

  Amy Clampitt

  Should Have, Long, Mad

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• It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Learning, Math, Past

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

  Aphex Twin

  Lying, Kids, Should Have

  "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, If I Could

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