Top 12 I Should Quotes
#1. I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter
#2. It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
Gustav Mahler
#3. Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
Bobby Fischer
#4. I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
Saul David
#5. I shouldn't have concerned myself with whether he'd keep his promise. I should have thought about whether I'd keep mine.
Cynthia Hand
#6. I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
#7. Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Virginia Woolf
#8. She reads, and I read her. And that's how I spend the next few weeks. Each day, she speaks a few more words to me, and each day I find myself caring more than I should.
Jay McLean
#9. Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment, and only he could bring them into harmony.
Dean Koontz
#10. (...) At that time I put down the paranoia. I should have trusted my instincts (...) [Hannah Wilde]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#11. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
Yann Martel
#12. One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
Mary Shelley
#13. Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#14. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Linda Hunt
#16. I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
James Stockdale
#17. I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
Benito Mussolini
#18. Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
Charlie Daniels
#19. The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
Cal Ripken, Sr.
#20. I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
Edvard Munch
#21. I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.
Alex Bosworth
#22. Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
Matt Chandler
#23. It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
Scipio Africanus
#24. My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.
Jonathan Gottschall
#25. My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. ( ... )
I should have let myself smash down the rocks. It would have hurt a whole lot less
Keri Arthur
#26. 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
#27. Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear ... Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn't lead to a safe place ... I should know.- Extract from The Blood Witching, copyright Eleanor Keane.
Eleanor Keane
#28. Rook, I should think it obvious." He smiled broadly. "I'm famously important.
William Ritter
#29. This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
Gail Collins
#30. I don't dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them.
Katja Millay
#31. There is a view," he said. "You will admire it." A command. All wrong. He meant for her to hear that he wanted her to see the view, but no. By habit, he demanded that she accompany him. "I should like for you to see it. Please.
Carolyn Jewel
#32. A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. The First Effect I should say the first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
Bentley Little
#34. You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
Sandra Cisneros
#35. I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#36. But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them.
Veronica Roth
#37. It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe."
Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.
Lilith Saintcrow
#38. Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that when I think that I'm being attacked by unseen forces, it probably just means that I am going insane.
John S. Hall
#39. The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.
Christopher Gist
#40. When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.
Nathan Rabin
#41. Who's to say what normal? We're all weird in some way. I'm not conforming to what society think I should be. I'm gonna let my freak flag fly.
Grace Risata
#42. I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
Nate Parker
#43. I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.
Mary Pierce
#44. I hardly know her but whenever I see her I lose my mind. I know I should run away, but I can't.
"That's called sexual attraction, honey," Max said. "It's very nice. But be careful. It can burn you bad.
Believe me I know.
Vanda
#45. I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
Agatha Christie
#46. I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Jose Rizal
#47. In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#48. I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#49. I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.
Patricia Highsmith
#50. I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
Isaac Newton
#51. I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau
#52. It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'
Virender Sehwag
#53. I should have known that having "end of the world" sex wouldn't solve our problems. Though, it was pretty great and I highly recommend it.
Jesse Petersen
#54. When i was 5 my favorite movie was the gremlins, ain't got shit to do with this, juss thought that i should mention.(:
Lil' Wayne
#56. Do you feel that, Brynlee? I should be in top physical shape from the cardio my heart gets. This is what has happened every time I've been around you for over two years, and baby, now that I've kissed these lips ...
Scarlet Wolfe
#57. A few people have said I should let you win
Usain Bolt
#58. There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
Ulysses S. Grant
#59. I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.
Jim Gaffigan
#60. So this was what having friends involved. Maybe I should just get a pet rock or something. A plant, maybe. Anything incapable of answering back. Once
Kylie Scott
#61. It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick
#62. Only I am sure I met no one on the way, because if I had I should have had to master myself, walk like a woman in her senses, even give a greeting. And when you have to, you can.
Ellis Peters
#63. The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.
John S. Hall
#64. Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.
Maxine Kumin
#65. How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
John Milton
#66. I pursue my case, Monsieur, I speak English, Italian and German, and I want justice in all three languages. I have been damaged by unlove. It makes at inappropriate moments when I should be dignified.
Deborah Levy
#67. When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
#68. I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
James Purefoy
#69. Who then is able to stand against Me? 11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Anonymous
#70. It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.
Emily Browning
#71. If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
#72. For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
Lou Reed
#73. I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
Werner Herzog
#74. There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.
Jim Butcher
#75. If I spent all my time fearing the things I should, I'd never stop screaming.
Jessica Shirvington
#76. But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.
Oscar Wilde
#77. Like maybe I should plan to get buried in a coffin full of glitter because that way if anyone in the future digs me up they'll be like, "What the fuck? Is that glitter? That shit never goes away. Fuck that noise. Let's just rob the guy next to her.
Jenny Lawson
#78. When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. I should think people would be disappointed if they watched that kind of movie and then came to see us dance and none of us slit our wrists onstage or made ourselves vomit or got on the backs of motorcycles while wearing tutus and started fucking each other.
Meg Howrey
#80. I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.
Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
#81. If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
Joan Of Arc
#82. Dear is my friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.
Friedrich Schiller
#83. Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.
Rasmenia Massoud
#84. I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny Depp
#85. I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?
Michel Gondry
#86. I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.
Al Kaline
#87. When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
Anne Carson
#88. Your mind is a sort of world to me: you can tell me all I want to know. I think I should never be tired of being with you.
George Eliot
#89. I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.
Meg Ryan
#90. If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.
Thomas Beecham
#91. I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
Kenneth Langone
#92. I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
Evan Williams
#93. Reed, I should've protected myself against you, but I didn't and now you live here, inside of me," I say, pointing to my heart. "I won't ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can't hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you -
Amy A. Bartol
#94. My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles Dickens
#95. I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about
Ian Kershaw
#96. More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it.
Arnold Palmer
#98. And I should mention the light
which falls through the big windows this time of day
italicizing everything it touches ...
Billy Collins
#99. I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.
Emma Cline
#100. God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
George Whitefield
