Should Have Been Quotes

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

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

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

This person should have been aborted years ago.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

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.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

Stubbornness should have been my middle name.

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

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

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

I remember things the way they should have been.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

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

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

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.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

I did disagree with Ronald Reagan very strongly on trade. I disagreed with him. We should have been much tougher on trade even then. I've been waiting for years. Nobody does it right.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

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

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.