Should Have Stayed Quotes

#1. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

#2. He should have stayed a frog. Not all men are meant to dance with dragons.

George R R Martin

#3. Three hours ago I was in bed, I thought miserably. I should have stayed there.

Diana Rowland

#4. If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

Clifford Geertz

#5. He told me to run so I ran, like a coward, I should have stayed. Oh my God! -Aurora

Candace Knoebel

#6. I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.

Kevin Kilbane

#7. And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.

Kristen McNulty

#8. D'you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.

George R R Martin

#9. If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I'm your man.

A.J. Hartley

#10. The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#11. We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Ray Bradbury

#12. I took the jar and placed it on my windowsill, leaving it where it should have stayed a long time ago.

Kiera Cass

#13. The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Jimmy Buffett

#14. I left. When I should have stayed.

Jay Asher

#15. The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

Carol Vorderman

#16. I'm a terrible person. I should have stayed in college. I should have gone skydiving while I had the chance. I should have gone swimming with dolphins. I should have seen The Spice Girls perform on their reunion tour!

Jillianne Hamilton

#17. You killed Rice Wheeler," he said, "the Panhandle gunman. "He should have stayed in the Panhandle," I said.

Louis L'Amour

#18. Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

Timothy Noah

#19. You were right," Eve spoke through numb lips. "I should have stayed away.

Cynthia Eden

#20. Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead.

Jim Butcher

#21. First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

LaToya London

#22. It was a great mistake to have come. He should have stayed at home and read his book, thought Peter Walsh; should have gone to a music hall; he should have stayed at home, for he knew no one.

Virginia Woolf

#23. You can fight all you want beautiful. You got involved with the wrong kind of people; evil you should have stayed clear from.

LeeAnn Whitaker

#24. As I head through the living room toward my bedroom, Warren glances at me. Twice. "Should have stayed in here and watched porn with me," he says, taking in the marker all over my face.

Colleen Hoover

#25. The point is, you should have stayed right where you were and let us handle this. Now we're going to have to tie up your uncle and put him in one of the cells or something until we sort out everything and can prove your innocence.

Lynsay Sands

#26. I should have stayed by Jill's side. That was my job, right?

Richelle Mead

#27. Etho thought about the last ten orbits of the sun and looked at Guude, "I should have stayed in the forest.

Stampy Miner

#28. That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.

Doris Day

#30. Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Francine Prose

#31. I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people that have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law. I think that's the right course.

Mitt Romney

#32. Should we have stayed home and thought of here?

Elizabeth Bishop

#33. You should've run faster, Lexi. You should've stayed far away from the Dark. But most of all, you should never have fallen for your Dragon King. It'll only bring you misery and death. Humans and Kings were never meant to mix.

Donna Grant

#34. Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,

Nelson DeMille

#35. I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

Willy Ronis

#36. As we watched, the regulations imposed by our government, churches, and press; combined to establish our country's new internal warfare. Fought on the podiums, pulpits, and pages by each in turn to empower themselves, again, while in the corner those that should not have stayed silent, did.

James W. Scott

#37. I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.

Mitt Romney

#38. I thought I did." Josh stares out over the city. "And then I knew I didn't, and she knew she didn't, but we stayed together, because ... I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love." He looks back at me. "Have you ever been in love?

Stephanie Perkins

#39. The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

Amanda Donohoe

#40. And Cody?"
"Yeah?"
"Bring your laptop too. I need help finding a top-secret compound."
I hear him laughing quietly and I can picture him rolling his eyes as he mumbles to himself,"I should have just stayed at science camp.

Jessica Brody

#41. 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

#42. It is not." "If it is not, what have I to do with it?" "You should have gone away when I asked you," he muttered. "I stayed when you asked me," was Lord Henry's answer.

Oscar Wilde

#43. A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Guy Sajer

#44. Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I'm in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don't want my help ... maybe I should have just stayed home.

D.L. Given

#45. I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.

Marv Levy

#46. He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

Jeaniene Frost