Top 100 Shouldn't Have Quotes
#1. The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.
Kristina McMorris
#2. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to remember the taste of her and the feel of her and the smell of her. She was quite lovely. She was altogether ravishing. She would set any man's blood on fire. He shouldn't have kissed her.
Marguerite Kaye
#3. We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
Ron Paul
#4. People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
Jane Seymour
#5. I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.
Naomi Novik
#6. In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.
Tony McCoy
#7. She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty.
S.A. Tawks
#8. Kyle Davis is like malware. He's infiltrated my brain in a sneak virus attack. Every time I try and focus, he pops in my head the same way internet windows pop up faster than you can shut them down. You know when that happens you've opened something you shouldn't have.
Kate McCarthy
#9. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Anonymous
#10. It's been a long time ... I shouldn't have left you
Without a strong rhyme to step to.
Rakim
#12. When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.
Scoot McNairy
#13. I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.
Robert Herjavec
#14. It shouldn't have to be said, " Arash went on, "but when confronted by crazy, Do Not Engage.
Sylvia Day
#15. I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave.
William Maxwell
#16. I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people based on one instance.
Jennifer Castle
#17. You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
#18. Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.
Rudy Giuliani
#19. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#20. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
Patricia Briggs
#21. Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.
Neil Strauss
#22. People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don't think that you could be the best in the world doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the confidence to believe I can do anything.
Ronda Rousey
#23. You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
Daniel Quinn
#24. Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
David Levithan
#25. They're limited edition,' she said. 'Listen,' I said 'they're not limited enough. These shouldn't have been made at all.
Karl Pilkington
#26. I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
#27. He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices.
Margaret Atwood
#28. I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD."
"And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.
Melina Marchetta
#29. Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder.
Kathy Acker
#30. If you really love someone you shouldn't have to think about anything. You should want to say it. It's not difficult.
Katie Klein
#31. You shouldn't have laughed."
"Pardon?"
"I might have let you be, but you laughed
Kristen Ashley
#32. But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.
John Thune
#33. There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.
Penn Jillette
#34. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
Umberto Eco
#35. This life's a long old road
We shouldn't have to walk alone
But if you find the right companion
You won't feel so worn out when you've grown
All life is precious
And every day's a prize
And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky
Elton John
#36. You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
Taylor Kitsch
#37. I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn't have done it! If you wait six years to get engaged, you are on the fence.
Marc Maron
#38. For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.
Jane Leavy
#39. You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.
Lindsay Lohan
#40. If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
Alexandra Bracken
#41. We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been.
Jamie Dimon
#42. I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?
Mamie Van Doren
#43. Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.
Kevin Fitzgerald
#44. I shouldn't have come," I said.
"Of course you should've. Otherwise I'd be fending off advances from Mrs. Stone.
Brodi Ashton
#45. I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't have unrelated hobbies.
Jon Ronson
#46. The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
Sharon Gless
#47. A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
Will Rogers
#48. Face falling, her sister pushed a crumb around her plate. 'I feel dumb now. I shouldn't have called you - I know you must be sad and busy because of the Falling.' She squashed the crumb, staring at it as if it were the most important thing on the planet.
Nalini Singh
#49. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
Malcolm Forbes
#50. You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.
Fred Upton
#51. Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.
Dorothy Koomson
#52. I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.
Ryan Reynolds
#53. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
David Dunn
#54. If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
Robin Quivers
#55. That's why I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you shouldn't have to be everything to me. I had you, but I'd forgotten that I had myself too. It's a new feeling, something I'm getting used to.
Marie Lu
#56. People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
Tony Abbott
#57. One of the quickest ways to make friends mad is to tell them what they should or shouldn't have done.
Sam Horn
#58. I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.
Simon Baker
#59. We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
Margaret Atwood
#60. The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro
#61. I knew what I needed, but asking for specific emotional things felt impossible and obnoxious. He was a human being. He should just instinctively know how to take care of an emotionally exhausted, sick, post-abortion wife. He ought to just know, I thought. I shouldn't have to fucking ask.
Amanda Palmer
#62. I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.
Elliott Erwitt
#63. There's just something about vampires that's sexy. It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.
Nina Dobrev
#64. But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.
Karyn Bosnak
#65. I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'
Sandra Bullock
#66. Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!
Sarra Manning
#68. I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.
Donald Trump
#69. I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.
John Robinson
#70. I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
Lindsey Stirling
#71. The warmth of his body shouldn't have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.
Patricia Briggs
#72. It shouldn't have surprised her. Didn't she know better than almost anyone what sort of filth humans were capable of? But it did, every time, a sort of weary, miserable surprise that someone out there had found a new way to create pain. She
Stacia Kane
#73. Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.
Marcia Angell
#74. I should have known better. I shouldn't have let my guard down. That's been a big rule of mine for the last year or so. It's easy to get your heart broken or your shoes stolen.
Loni Flowers
#75. It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
Veronica Roth
#76. All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's Reality. That's happened. No changing the past.
Peter McWilliams
#77. Someone's attention shouldn't have a physical weight, but it does. Hate's a heavy burden; hope is worse.
Josin L. McQuein
#78. I shouldn't have done that, I said.
That was when I kissed him again.
May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
Gabrielle Zevin
#79. Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface ... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
Wim Crouwel
#80. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.
Kevin Millar
#82. Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.
Jack Abramoff
#83. The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
Will Ferrell
#84. Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
Paul Dickson
#85. But I should be the one to check! It's my house, and you shouldn't have to do it just because you're the man." He cast her a withering glance that was probably lost in the darkness. "Burn a bra if you want, but don't be ridiculous!" "Reece!" "What?" "Be careful!
Pamela Clare
#86. I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.
George W. Bush
#87. I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.
Matt Prokop
#88. We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women
Barack Obama
#89. You shouldn't have to settle for anything. You deserve to be with someone who thinks the world of you.
Josephine Myles
#90. We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
Roger McGough
#91. I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.
John Rocker
#92. There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai.
Daniel Snyder
#93. This is a bad story."
"Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you."
"No, you should," I say.
"But - "
"I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
Emma Donoghue
#94. No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
Barbara Kingsolver
#95. I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.
Mark McGwire
#97. What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What
Cheryl Strayed
#98. I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
Harbhajan Singh
#99. I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
Kevin Zegers
#100. To all you who believe we shouldn't have a minimum wage
that the minimum amount you can be paid should be determined solely by your employer, we tried it once before: it was called slavery.
Quentin R. Bufogle
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