Should Have Known Quotes

• [On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Legends, Be A Man

  Look Magazine, 27 Nov. 1967

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• Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Incredibles

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Military, Should Have

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Cancer, Should Have, Known

  "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar updates health". www.espn.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

  Stanley Fish

  Should Have, Choices, Pro Life

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• Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.

  Scott Belsky

  Should Have, Looks, Today

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• I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Divorce, Should Have

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• Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, First Love, Should Have

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

  Steve Kluger

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

  Chinua Achebe

  Should Have, Numbers, Stressed

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• Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.

  Christine Feehan

  Gun, Hands, Should Have

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• I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Should Have, Quality, Shapes

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  "Look" Magazine, (JFK memorial issue), November 17, 1964.

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• Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Should Have, Years

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• With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Talking, Should Have

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• But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

  Ally Carter

  Should Have, Long, Happens

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• I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

  Heidi Montag

  Growing Up, Should Have, Dollars

  "Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt on Their Reality TV Regrets" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2011.

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• But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Nice, Kissing, Thinking

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Should Have, Trials, Firsts

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Spring, Sunshine, Clouds

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

  Linda Finch

  Women, Should Have, Flying

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• Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Wise, Heart

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• There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Egypt, Should Have, Government

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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