Quotes by Should Have [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements. Edward Bellamy should-haveperfecthome Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. Edward Abbey suicidaljourneyshould-have IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. Edward Carpenter collegeshould-havelaw Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here! Edward Robb Ellis citiesnew-yorkshould-have We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U.S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad - even for temporary jobs - should have to recruit U.S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market. Edward Kennedy should-havelawjobs I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life. Edward Norton speaks-frenchshould-haveforever A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased. Edwin Lutyens gardenshould-haveideas The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder. Edwina Currie flirtingseniorshould-have I don't know what should have happened in my life, but I do know that I'm dancing as fast as I can. Elaine Stritch happeneddancingshould-have I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. Eli Whitney respectrightsshould-have Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. Elias Canetti literatureshould-havejustice When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals. Eliza Leslie should-haveblueclass I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. Elizabeth Banks secretshould-havethinking I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes. Elizabeth Chandler kissingeyeshould-have As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color. Elizabeth Berg colorshould-havewriting In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. Elizabeth Goudge boredomshould-havespring We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet. Elizabeth Cady Stanton governmentshould-havereligion Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth. Elizabeth I angelkingsshould-have Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. Elizabeth West cyclingshould-havemen I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't. Elizabeth Scott scarednormalshould-have«2324252627282930313233»
