Should Have Quotes - Page 27

• I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

  Tom Stoppard

  Conviction, Should

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.126, University of Michigan Press

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• Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

  Richard Matheson

  Biting, Ignored, Given

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

  Ann Patchett

  Night, Thinking, Want

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• If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Independent, World

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• After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m.

  David Sedaris

  Fire, Skulls, Leaving

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• Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.

  Sarah Dessen

  Towns, States, Harder

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.44, Penguin

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• I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parenting, Names, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

  Og Mandino

  Children, Believe, Land

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• The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, Thinking, Would Be

  "Feature: 'There's life, there's hope': Stephen Hawking", en.people.cn. June 14, 2006.

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• Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fading, Belief, Hamper

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix

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• She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

  Linda Howard

  War, Wine, Past

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Vocabulary, Adjectives

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• We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

  Charles Bukowski

  Rose, Waiting, Sun

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• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  W. H. Auden

  Christmas, Friday, Easter

  "Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry". Book by Anthony Hecht, p. 135, 2005.

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• I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Gone, Weak

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

  John Lennon

  Men, Kicking, Allan Poe

  "Song: 'I Am the Walrus'". 1967.

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• What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

  Charles Taylor

  Running, Principles, Belief

  Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspiring, Equality, Rights

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Sea, Pairs, Silent

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 73 (1917)

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• What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Evil, Black

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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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• I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

  Charles Bukowski

  Machinery, Treated, Has Beens

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• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Order, Growth

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• Richard...," Julie said, staring down at the open jewelry case in her hand. Inside was an ornate, heart-shaped locket supported by a gold chain. "It's beautiful. But... why? I mean, what's the occasion?" "No occasion. I just saw it and, well... I liked it. Or rather, I thought of you and knew you should have it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Mean, Heart

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• Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rip, Clothes, Shirts

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