Should Have Been Quotes (page 7)

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• anxiety
• illness
• liking

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. Edvard Munch

• sees
• should have
• neurologists

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist. Jonathan Miller

• keep going
• favorite
• writing

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it. Stephenie Meyer

• lawyer
• afraid
• talking

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. Tom Glazer

• god
• faith
• faith in god

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. Mahatma Gandhi

• new york
• new
• should have

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. John Kenneth Galbraith

• ambition
• happy
• enough

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. Eva Gabor

• passion
• house
• interior

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. Gene Tierney

• work
• health
• caring

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. Paul Farmer

• thankful
• thanks
• honey

Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey. Jack Dempsey

• god
• small
• time

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. Igor Stravinsky

• thinking
• been
• should have

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

• life
• boys
• little boy

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards. Alan Cumming

• procrastination
• bad
• tomorrow

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napolean Hill

• wild
• new
• positive

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. Donald Cram