Should Have Been Quotes

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

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

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

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

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

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

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

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.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

General Mike Flynn obviously was dealing with Russia. So that's one person. But he was dealing, as he should have been.

Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.