“It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.” IfsThinkingMenShouldAbleLastsFoundGrowsLosesForeverHumorousLettersShould HaveLifetimeForgottenPleasantCharmReasonableThrownPerpetualNoveltySignaturesDecipherReasonable Man Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.” ShouldTryingHumansLongReligionEasyWaterKnownForeverChangedBrotherShould HavePatternsLiftsKnivesUnpredictableSlipperyMartiansShould Have KnownShort WordsShould Have Known Better Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.” PeopleMenShouldStillsGirlActorsRolesForeverTruth IsShould HaveAssumingKillingStuckOscarsAccusedWayneFree Time Author:Sylvia Kristel
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.” MenShouldBookUseHandsOrderMemoriesBehindsStepsForeverStudyHe ManBearsGainsShould HaveWeightRaisedBurdenInsightClimbsClimbingRejoiceLoadLaddersSummitBourne Book:101 Facts of life Source: 101 Facts of life
“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.” ThinkingWantShouldRealLastsCultureTalkingForeverMy FamilyShould HaveAppreciationChicagoGrandpa Author:Patrick Stump
“Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.” PeopleShouldDoneForeverCuttingWorstCrimeJudgingCircumstancesEqualCapableShould HaveMurderHorribleTendenciesChairsOur SocietyGoing AwayElectricConsideringMurdererSnapsJudging PeopleElectric ChairNot Judging Author:Jack Black
“(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.” WayNeedsShouldYearsLastsForeverLike YouShould HaveClockAutomobileAntiques Author:William Baldwin
“I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.” ShouldStillsSpeakWishForeverMusic IsShould HaveStuckSurfSpeaks French Author:Edward Norton
“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."” ShouldArtSaidIdeasRememberArtistWishForeverPaintingShould HaveIranianExhibitions Author:Farah Diba
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“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.” FeelsShouldI CanHomeNightGivenStarsTermTalkingForeverClearSkyShould HaveBeggingSourObnoxious Book:Live for a Living Source: Live for a Living
“His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."” ShouldHas BeensForeverShould HaveStatementsShould Have Been Author:John Fowles
“But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.” IfsThinkingShouldSaidKnownLaughingForeverNiceTenKissingShould HaveShould Have KnownHyacinths Author:Julia Quinn
“But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldYearsFoundEasyForeverUnderstoodShould HaveForever Love Book:Nobel Prize Library Source: Nobel Prize Library
“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.” KnowsShouldWellsCoursesAsksSecretForeverTakenOur LivesShould HavePandora Author:Liane Moriarty
“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?''” ShouldWritingUseFunnyLastsNightDiesFallActorsBornActingAudienceForeverCreationHumorousShould HaveCriticsEvery NightCurtainsTuesdayPatron Author:Micheal Mac Liammoir
“This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.” ShouldHeartPersonsHas BeensImportantTurnsForeverFocusSourceEternalShould HaveFilledLife ChangingEmptinessInwardShould Have BeenPassing AwayLive ForeverSource Of LifePerdition Author:Johan Oscar Smith