“As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find something of ourselves in them. Each character, even those only there to serve the mechanics of the plot, should have a number of layers. The entire world you are stepping into as a reader must feel real. It must have resonance, you must be able to touch the light; smell the smells.” WorldWantFeelsShouldRealCharacterStoriesLightAbleStrongNumbersReaderShould HaveSmellRelatePlotLayersMechanicResonance Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.” ShouldNumbersPositionShould HavePopulationJewPercentagesLarge Numbers Author:Otto Ohlendorf
“I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.” ShouldSaidForcePresidentNumbersEffortShould HaveSorryAgreementTroopsI'm Sorry Author:Mitt Romney
“Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldLyingDiesReligiousInterestingNumbersResponsibilitySafeShould HaveWestCrowdsMythDevelopingFestivalsDon't Lie Author:John Seabrook
“A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.” MenInspirationalShouldLittlesWisdomNamesNumbersConsciousnessConsciousShould HaveAimIntelligenceInspirational Goal Setting Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.” ShouldNumbersProductsMonthsMessagesShould HaveCrashTestingIdiosyncrasiesAbbreviations Book:The Macintosh Way Source: The Macintosh Way
“When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.” ShouldNumbersShould HaveAccountsSavingSavingsSavings AccountsChecking Accounts Author:Dan Ariely
“Future's Pluto is my favorite album of the year. It's so emo. Future is the number one dude I'd love to produce for - every time I listen to the song he did with Rihanna, "Loveeeeeee Song", I'm like, "I should have produced that."” ShouldYearsSongNumbersProduceShould HaveMy FavoriteAlbumsEmoPluto Author:Ryan Hemsworth
“We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.” KnowsShouldYearsBelieveLongLeftI BelieveNumbersConditionsBrotherPeriodsShould HavePrisonGetting OldGetting OlderFramedLong Periods Of Time Author:Sekou Odinga
“That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.” ShouldNumbersCollegeShould HaveIslamJewPrizeUnfortunateNobelNobel PrizeTrinityTrinity College Author:Richard Dawkins
“Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.” WayShouldUsedChurchNumbersKnownLordDependsHolyConsequenceShould HaveImportanceCrowdsKingdomsFollyBrownTemplesEverlastingKingdom Of GodOur LordStressedWhipsShould Have KnownThings Fall Apart OkonkwoLarge CrowdsMr Brown Author:Chinua Achebe
“There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.” ShouldMindHumansSaidHomeNumbersRegretShould HaveFunctionFollowingDesertHuman MindSoleReally TrueNevadaSupercomputers Author:David Rakoff
“My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.” ShouldHas BeensFightingProcessNumbersHighestConcernShould HaveTerrorismPrioritiesPalestinianSaddamShould Have BeenFighting Terrorism Author:Brent Scowcroft
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” ThinkingShouldTwoThreeNumbersEmotionLaughingOur LivesTearsBasketballShould HaveMovedThree ThingsNumber Three Author:Jim Valvano
“You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.” IfsShouldHappensRunningNumbersWonderMorningTrainingArgumentShould HaveRoutineInspirational SportsOften IsMotivational Running Author:Robert de Castella