“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.” ShouldWritingKindLittlesSelfWantedSongFeltUnderstoodShould HaveReeds Author:Lou Reed
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.” IfsShouldBelieveLongHas BeensMadeSelfBodyWould BeNationsEasyResultsRolesAliveRevolutionLong TimeUnderstoodShould HaveOrganizationIntelligentFundamentalsUniversityExpectedCorporateRebelEvidentShould Have BeenAlterations Author:Muriel Beadle
“Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.” ShouldProgressConsciousUnderstoodShould HaveUnityMutualDependenceHymnsCompleteness Author:James Montgomery
“That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.” ShouldHas BeensGovernmentFormFeltSupportSuccessfulPeriodsUnderstoodShould HaveOriginalsExperimentsEstablishmentShould Have BeenPropsUndecided Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.” ShouldMadeDoneUnderstoodShould HaveMathEngineeringRigs Author:Jamie Hyneman
“We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.” MenWorldShouldLongThis WorldUnderstoodShould HaveFallenIdolsJustificationLong AgoWithout GodWorld Religions Author:Alexander Schmemann
“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” IfsNeedsShouldWritingMindFirstsOrderGrowthClearUnderstoodShould HaveVersesDesksIncentives Author:C. S. Lewis
“I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life” ShouldMomentsFeltLossRegretUnderstoodShould HaveSafety Book:Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel Source: Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel
“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