I Quotes
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“I should have moved on, but I loved it here. I felt like a Romantic poet or Thoreau by his pond. I imagined myself chasing fair maidens barefoot through the trees and drinking from fresh streams. One can build their own life here without feeling the pressures of the outside."
Lee had never seen her hometown through this filter. Mr. Hall seemed to see everything through gossamer, the town's crumbling school and faded American flags shimmering like gasoline in water.”
Source: Strange Folk
“I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.”
“I should have never left the inn,' she whispered. 'I shouldn't have done it!'
There was something in the ground that Ma had warned in her note. It was real. And Lettie hadn't listened, and now this...”
Source: The Snow Merchant
“I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.”
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
Source: The substance of man
“I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government — communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial — but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria.
(“Why they still hate us, 13 years later,” Washington Post, 09/05/2014)”
“I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me.
Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you.
Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please." Antigone to Theben's king Creon”
Source: Antigone
“I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me.
Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you.
Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever they please." Antigone to Theben's king Creon”
Source: The Tragedies Of Sophocles: In English Prose, The Oxford Translation
“I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.”
“I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.”
“I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.”
“I should have said something. ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save
“I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.”
“I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him or any sacred ground inside my being that he could not walk upon.”
Source: Pleasant Day
“I should have seen it coming.” The words don’t surprise me, but they piss me off. I pull away and glare down at her. “Don’t you fucking dare, Nell Hawthorne. Don’t you dare put this on yourself. You should never have to see shit like this coming.” She backs away, stunned and afraid by the intensity I know is radiating off me. “Colton, I just meant he’s always shown—” “Stop. Just stop right there. Granted, you should’ve never gotten involved with a douchetard like him, but that’s no excuse for what he did.”
“I should have seen that what I had was enough. You are enough, if you’ll have my love.’ He pressed his antlers to her head. ‘I choose you.’
- Skediceth”
Source: Godkiller
“I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.”
“I should have stopped sooner, before our lips had ever touched.
But now I knew her sweetness, and every part of my being yearned for more.”
Source: Let Me Be Yours
“I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."”
“I should have taken dozens of photos of that room. I should have photographed the whole house so nothing would ever be lost. One day I will no longer clearly remember that house where we loved one another so much, and once I can't remember it, I'll go mad.”
Source: Ordesa
“I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.”
“I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes.”
“I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.”
Source: Amrita
“I should have told someone. But I didn’t. I didn’t think it was anything significant until it was.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.”
Source: Live for a Living
“I Should Have Told You
Child, I love you
I wished to be with you longer
But I had to go to a place up yonder
My time on Earth was over
There is something I should tell
I hope you receive it well
Here is a vital fact
Not every parent might share
Please lend me an ear
Learn while you can
I want you to know
That life comes with its highs and lows
Stand for yourself, whether or not it snows
Pray more and fast more
Trust the Lord your God
When storms come your way
Do not doubt your faith
Put on a brave face
Run in the right lane
You shall win the race
Be a good learner
Always be eager
To become an achiever
Keep being a dreamer
Never fear to be a leader
Because you were born to prosper
And that my adorable one
Is what I should have told you”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.”
Source: This Lullaby
“I should have told you the minute I saw you that you look beautiful. I do love the way you look tonight.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“I should have told you the other half of the story."
There's more? thought Tumble. How much stranger could the Montgomerys get?”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“I should have tried getting blown up months ago if that's what it takes to get you to be nice to me.”
Source: Dangerous Protector
“I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.”
“I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63”
“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”
“I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.”
“I should have written books instead of reading them.”
Source: Reunion
“I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.”
“I should have written that down. - Dilbert”
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.”
“I should hurt a lot more people than I do. Id like to hurt someone on every play.”
“I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.”
“I should infinitely prefer a book.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel
“I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.”
“I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.”
“I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.”
“I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.”
“I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.”
“I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.”