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Should Have Quotes (page 26)

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. Kurt Vonnegut
Dr. Seuss quote: "I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here..."
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights. Dr. Seuss
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
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
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Alan Cumming quote: "You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an..."
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. Alan Cumming
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done..."
Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. Laurell K. Hamilton
I know this because the worst has happened. The thing I can’t live with… has happened. And for all our back and forth— and all the things we’ve said and done to each other… there’s one thing that I’ll never be able to tell anyone now… The one thing! The one thing I should have told you. But now I can’t… It wasn't worth it. Brian Michael Bendis
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace. But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Frank Herbert quote: "I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself,” Paul..."
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself,” Paul said. “I know this. Every man should have such an auditor. Frank Herbert
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished. John Singer Sargent
T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. Sue Monk Kidd
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been. Clive Barker
George Orwell quote: "The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics..."
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. George Orwell
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants. Neil Gaiman

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