Top 100 You Should Have Quotes
#2. His eyes opened when it was all over. "You should have let me die."
"I couldn't," she said.
"He took my soul."
"No, love, he couldn't. Your soul is safe with me.
P.C. Cast
#3. You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.
Marvin J. Ashton
#4. My first recommendation ... will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.
Susan Howatch
#5. I kept seeing you as you were. I couldn't forget it. And that you should have become what you are - that does not belong in a rational universe." "No? And the world as you see it around you does?" "You were not the kind of man who gets broken by any kind of world.
Ayn Rand
#6. I was planning to end this phase after a few weeks, but after one particular meeting, the lead advisor asked me not to come back. She said she'd noticed that every time I was asked to give a suggestion about an ex-husband to a grieving divorcee, I always said, You should have him murdered.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#7. You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.
Emeril Lagasse
#8. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl Strayed
#9. You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
Jasper Fforde
#10. I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.
Conor Oberst
#11. You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you.
Ruth Gruber
#12. I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.
Stacy Schiff
#13. You should have told them about him. (Artemis)
Told them what, Artemis? Behave or the bitch-goddess will unleash her insane killer on you? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.
Hillary Clinton
#15. Didn't your mother ever tell you the only way to kill us is to cut us into pieces? You should have brought a wood chipper instead of a gun. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. Griffin rolled his eyes. "You should have heard him complaining in wardrobe." His voice went up an octave in a poor imitation of Kellan's. "Oh, poor me, I have to make
S.C. Stephens
#17. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome
Deborah Harkness
#18. I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#19. You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.
Robert B. Parker
#20. My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
Anton Yelchin
#21. He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She
Marguerite Poland
#22. You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.
Alexander McCall Smith
#23. Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone.
Dorothy Dunnett
#24. You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
Nirmala Srivastava
#25. Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.
Karina Smirnoff
#26. Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
Snoop Dogg
#27. There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.
Cheryl Strayed
#28. I do . . . love you. If you needed me to say it before you should have told me so. I know what it means.
Amber L. Johnson
#29. You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.'
'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.
Chelsea Cain
#30. You should have some time to think and that's very important.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#31. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.
Anne Bishop
#32. I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
Zara Phillips
#33. Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?
Rachel Ward
#34. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#35. Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn't sending you the 'let's go back to my place' signals. In that case - "
"Don't go there, Bob. Let's just not go there.
Nora Roberts
#37. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
#38. You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
Sarah Dessen
#39. You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It's appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner's a perfect example of that - he just always looks so chic.
Tommy Ton
#40. You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
Napoleon Hill
#41. You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.
Gustave Flaubert
#42. No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name.
Kristen Ashley
#43. I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.
Sarah Silverman
#44. I have to be perfectly honest:
You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.
Big Pun
#45. You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.
Judith Krug
#46. We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer
#47. I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
Ray Dalio
#48. You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.
Joy Williams
#49. You should have no fear from dying because it's there no matter what.
Abdeletif
#50. Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
Taylor Momsen
#51. I'm your wife. You should have come to me. When I have ever not been there to help you? He shook his head, telling me there never was a time, which made his story that much worse. I would have done anything for that man, and he knew it.
Courtney Giardina
#52. Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
Leonard Ravenhill
#53. You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude
it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
Ewan McGregor
#55. I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.
Rafael Sabatini
#56. To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you've heard of, authors you should have read.
Kevin Bleyer
#57. If there was a risk that the vendor wouldn't come through for you, then you should have had a contingency plan.
Andrew Hunt
#58. I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
Rand Paul
#59. 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
#60. This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.
Jerry Stahl
#61. My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran
#62. If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
Hale Irwin
#63. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock
Warren Buffett
#64. You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
Zaha Hadid
#65. You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life.
Girdhar Joshi
#66. There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
Ian McKellen
#68. I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
Michelle Yeoh
#69. A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.
Christine Baranski
#70. You should have tried the eggplant parmesan she tried to hoist on me at the church bake sale. No wonder her children turned to Satan. He probably showed up as an angel of light and promised them a decent meal.
Kathy Hepinstall
#71. No," he says. "You should have. Just go speak to her. I need to take a walk.
Tarryn Fisher
#72. Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
John Lennon
#73. You should have little something in your heart for everyone out there.
Pratik Akkawar
#74. It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
Gavin MacLeod
#75. You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.
Arkady Strugatsky
#76. To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think
spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.
Jim Valvano
#77. I got a lady who liked George because she said he knew how to tie his tie right," said the black girl. "Gloria Steinem showed him how to tie it. You should have seen how he tied it before that.
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.
Sam Harris
#79. Release blame. It does not help you to go over and over what you think you should have done or said. Stop blaming other people too. You don't need to make yourself or other people "wrong" in order to deal with your life in the moment.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#80. For however strong you may be in respect of your army, it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#81. For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy.
Dalai Lama XIV
#82. You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on.
August Wilson
#83. Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals.
Jonathon Stroud
#84. You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.
Cassandra Clare
#85. You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.
Colleen Coble
#86. We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#87. How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!
Jane Austen
#88. Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
Sara Zarr
#89. When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it - guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it - guilt.
Suze Orman
#90. If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity
Randy Pausch
#91. Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag.
Katie McGarry
#92. I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.
Luis Suarez
#93. You're going to let me love you like you should have the first time I offered.
Ella Dominguez
#94. If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.
Nolan Gould
#95. You should have had the decency to die when you needed to."
"Sorry," I admitted. "I've been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it's almost over.
Ally Carter
#96. Words are symbols for shared memories. If I use a word, then you should have some experience of what the word stands for. If not, the word means nothing to you.
Jorge Luis Borges
#97. We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?'
Micheal Mac Liammoir
#98. Levelling my stare at him I drop a hint like a penny into a well, You mentioned you were tied up. Win, you should have reserved that privilege for me.
Poppet
#99. You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.
Richard Paul Evans
#100. Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.
John C. Maxwell
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