Should Have Known Quotes - Page 2

• I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.

  Nate Parker

  Sex, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

  Tom Petty

  Past, Should Have, Lasts

  Song: Even The Losers

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

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Fighting, Should Have

  William Shakespeare (1792). “The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).”

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• If you get arrested, you`re supposed to know why you`re arrested. So, Freddie Gray should have known why he was arrested. His friends, his family, his community, they should have known what he was charged with, why he was arrested. And the police should have come out with that right away.

  Hillary Clinton

  Should Have, Community, Police

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Night, Should Have, Sound

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• Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

  Joan Robinson

  Should Have, Growth, Needs

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

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• 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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Should Have, Office

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• I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

  John Steinbeck

  Rain, Should Have, Land

  "To a God Unknown".

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

  John Ruskin

  Should Have, Duty, Known

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• He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Brother, Should Have, Knives

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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• 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?

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Should Have, Stones, Dungeons

  Lilith Saintcrow (2011). “Working For The Devil: The Dante Valentine Novels: Book One”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I’ve seen it through my eyes and I’ve seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can’t. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

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• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Reading, Book, Men

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• If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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• Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, War, Iraq

  Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005.

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• The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Responsibility, Should Have

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Procrastination, Should Have, Voice

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  Hilary Mantel

  Clothes, Should Have, Size

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Sight

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

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Eye, Kissing, Should Have

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Dark Secrets 1: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

  Kiera Cass

  Girl, Order, Should Have

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• I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

  Cate Tiernan

  Should Have, Rivers, Challenges

  Cate Tiernan (2011). “Immortal Beloved (Book One): Immortal Beloved: Book One”, p.313, Hachette UK

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• Nora: I have questions. Patch: I should have known you've only been keeping me around for answers. Nora: Well, that and your kisses. Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Kissing, Should Have, Answers

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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