Should Have Quotes (page 58)

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• marriage
• years
• yearly

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. Joseph Barbera

• family
• god
• women

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in. Christine Baranski

• imagination
• scientists
• precise

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov

• nature
• thinking
• humanity

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. Elizabeth Banks

• good times
• guilty
• feeling

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do. Charles Eames

• personality
• personal
• person

I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage. Ed Balls

• change
• life
• father

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. Christian Bale

• people
• justice
• lawyer

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. David Baldacci

• cells
• overeating
• needs

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. Stephen Baker

• amazing
• walking
• wonder

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. Walter Bagehot

• idealize
• should
• cans

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. Frank Auerbach

• husband
• she
• design

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? Mary Astell

• iraqis
• damages
• iraqi

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. Les Aspin

• men
• reading
• life

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

• god
• life
• good

If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life. Arthur Ashe