Best should-have & attention Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.”

Needs Should Social Waiting Attention Media Events Should Have Paid Everyday Currents Social Media Discussion Classroom Grandchildren Current Events

Author:Adora Svitak

“More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.”

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.”

Thinking Way Should Looks Might Parent Attention Boys Taught Exercise Should Have Lips Cups Pay Attention Victorian Dashing

Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.”

Thinking Should Trying Has Beens Feelings Kids Wanted Felt Born Hurt Attention Special Needed Should Have Spots Odd Sensitive Touched Should Have Been Wanted To Be Loved Somebody Special

Author:Dolly Parton

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ifs Should Mind Firsts Ideas Together Simple Attention Progress Reflection Should Have Add Repeats Sensations Simple Ideas

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan”

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Author:Tatyana Golikova

“George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.”

Should Felt Behinds Attention Masters Should Have Prose Honored

Book:Past imperfect

Source: Past imperfect

“I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.”

Way Should Facts Lines Attention Progress Reader Conscious Should Have Interiors Cadence

Author:Billy Collins

“I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.”

People Should Believe Humans Kind Given Attention Should Have Despite Human Life Massive Transforming

Author:Amartya Sen

“I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.”

Thinking Should Said Decision Attention Mistake Needed Office Should Have Iraq Focused Pay Attention Afghanistan Momentum Taliban Right Decision

Author:Barack Obama

“What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.”

Thinking Should Trying Attention Fans Promise Training Should Have Let Me Paid Sexy Vampire Silver Disappointed Knives Flirting I Promise Let Me Go Suave

Author:Kiersten White

“Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.”

Should Long Has Beens Made Memories Pay Attention Kissing Should Have Passionate Mary Remarks Should Have Been Matthew Delayed

Author:Jessica Fellowes

“People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides.”

People Thinking Way Love Should Wisdom Spirit Attention Situation Meditation Impossible Yoga Should Have Peaceful Wellness Impossible Situations

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.”

People Should Action Asks Attention Responsibility Forgiveness Should Have Paid Sorry Apology Trusted I Am Sorry Am Sorry Connecticut

Author:John G. Rowland

“Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

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