Should Have Quotes - Page 3

• Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

  John Gay

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 1, sc. 8

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• As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

  John Newton

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.140, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

  Neil Tennant

  Issues, Individuality, Able

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Destiny, Men, Every Man

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• Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

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• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Mind

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

  Lord Byron

  Tyrants, Want, Pages

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.243, Delphi Classics

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• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Home, Naps, Long

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• A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

  Voltaire

  Science, Discovery, Sublime

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Hands

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• Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

  Don Marquis

  Children, Father, Men

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.55, Anchor

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• True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

  George Aiken

  Wise, Land, People

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• If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

  Voltaire

  Philosophical, Writing, Rome

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• And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

  Lord Byron

  Fishing, Vices, Trout

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

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• I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Chance

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• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Law

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98

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• Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

  James Montgomery

  Hymns, Unity, Progress

  "The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an Introductory Essay". Book by James Montgomery, 1825.

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• I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

  David Myers

  Reading, Ideas, Cooking

  Source: www.signaturemagazine.com.au

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• All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you've been seeing someone for a short while and the "relationship" winds itself down mutually but not explicitly, no postmortem is necessary. But a real relationship should have a real ending.

  Amber Heard

  Real, Wind, Seeing

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• I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Believe, Littles

  "X-Men: First Class - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

  Colin Firth

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, People, Tone

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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