“If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.” IfsShouldHas BeensCountryDoneBigsCareMinesShould HaveSpreadHealth CareShould Have BeenPublic HealthRetrospectHaitiRebukeCholeraWildfiresCanaries Author:Paul Farmer
“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.” ShouldHas BeensSittingShould HaveLooking BackShould Have BeenPubsPlaywriting Author:Jez Butterworth
“The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.” ShouldMayHas BeensSelfEyeFacesGrowsLosesSelf EsteemAcceptanceHonorJudgmentSolutionsShould HaveStrongerFilledHungerDeeperSurrenderEsteemDesperateVoidApprovalWithin YouFrighteningShould Have BeenDisapprovalApproval Of Others Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.” IfsNeedsShouldMayLongHas BeensMadeDifferentRealEnoughPastDesireWishMissingRegretReturnHappeningsShould HaveEnjoyedVainPleasantAshamedRemorseShould Have BeenNo RegretsMissing ItSnobbish Author:George Santayana
“I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.” ThinkingShouldChildrenHas BeensSpeakMy FamilyShould HaveRaisedMy ChildrenShould Have Been Author:Joe Namath
“Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.” MenShouldHas BeensLyingShould HaveFuneralShould Have BeenDead ManTruth And Lies Author:Louis Gustave Vapereau
“I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.” IfsMenShouldHas BeensEnoughRememberCareersFateShould HaveBarsAgentsShould Have BeenTorchesQuirkySidekicks Author:Whitney Cummings
“My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.” ShouldYearsHas BeensShould HaveShould Have BeenImpulsiveShort Lived Author:Joseph Barbera
“Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.” IfsShouldHas BeensSoundJusticePolicyShould HaveUniversalIntelligentSoldierConvincedSatisfiedShould Have BeenSuffrageUniversal SuffrageImpartial Justice Author:Salmon P. Chase
“Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know” IfsKnowsShouldLongHas BeensDoneRunningPoliticalFoundFourRevolutionSummerShould HaveSoldierWhat IfLong AgoShould Have BeenOhioTinDrumming Author:Neil Young
“I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldHas BeensIdeasPlayBeautifulFacesCertainHateResponsibilityCareersNiceShould HaveDoctorsI HateShould Have BeenBeing Beautiful Author:Lena Headey
“I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.” ThinkingWorldShouldHas BeensWarShould HaveObjectivesJournalistWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War INaziShould Have Been Author:Sebastian Junger