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I remember things the way they should have been. — Truman Capote

There should be laughter after pain, there should be sunlight after rain, these things have always been the same, so why worry now?
[Why Worry?] — Mark Knopfler

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him — Muhammad Asad

Fire and Blood were the words of House Targaryen, but Dunk once heard Ser Arlan say that Aegon's should have been Wash Her and Bring Her to My Bed. — George R R Martin

I wanted desperately to be part of our pack; I felt a hole inside myself where my pack should have been. — Aurora Whittet

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem, — David Winner

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. — Etta James

I always thought I should have been a better mother. — Donna Karan

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off. — Michael Patrick King

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms. — Ronald Reagan

Then you should have never been born — Christopher Pike

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. — Rush Limbaugh

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white. — Kenneth Oppel

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau

That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were. — Alastair Reynolds

Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun! — David Edwards

I love the smell of Chai Tea in the morning... (What should have been said in "Apocalypse Now") — Sakinaa Davies

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. — Lord Byron

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life. — Cesar Romero

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. — Janet Jackson

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born. — Julie Anne Peters

You should have been nicer to her, Nick. You should have eaten the fucking pie. — Gillian Flynn

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. — George Santayana

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. — Tony Kushner

Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? — C.S. Lewis

It does. This is how it should have been anyway.' I caught my breath as he kissed my neck, teeth grating my skin. 'And I'll take back what's mine. — Richelle Mead

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been — Douglas Wilson

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it. — Roger Maris

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games. — Harold Ford Jr.

I cried for what should have been. — Lawrence Schimel

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. — Ty Cobb

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. — Rick Allen

I should have been a stuntwoman. — Poppy Montgomery

You should have been here, Will, I told him silently. It was you she really needed. — Jojo Moyes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. — Mark Twain

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. — Gene Tierney

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not ... — Kimberley Strassel

There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy. — C.D. Reiss

Some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time. — Stieg Larsson

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. — Anna Quindlen

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. — Napoleon Hill

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black

It was a thought that should not have been thoughted. — Terry Pratchett

I should have known better than to assume you'd been corrupted by the rest of them. Perhaps you'll be able to corrupt them instead. — Brandon Sanderson

We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls — Frank Wynne

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.' — Hilary Mantel

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice. — Leymah Gbowee

Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye. — Victoria Roberts

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second. — Karina Smirnoff

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that. — Robin Wright

So at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been wiped clean. — Krista Ritchie

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know. — Andy Roddick

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium. — Amanda Steele

-I do not want to die
- Then you should not have been born (Sita)
Last Vampire — Christopher Pike

Gender equality is not something we should have to fight for, it should have always been. — Robyn Oyeniyi

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again. — Joe Klein

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished. — Charles Darwin

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified. — Steve Williams

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around. — Dennis Hopper

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch. — Alastair Reynolds

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. — Jane Austen

I should think more crimes have probably been committed by chaps with inferiority complexes trying to demonstrate their virility, than even for money. — Mary Renault

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. — Charles Bass

I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine. — John Keats

His lack of remorse and boundaries should have been a red flag to me, but it sort of made me want to see how far I would let myself go with him. — Monica Alexander

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great. — Mark Twain

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight. — Marvin Hagler

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world. — Debbie Ford

This person should have been aborted years ago. — Richard Dawkins

All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given. — Li Bingbing

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
— Jane Wagner

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all. — Peter Drucker

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose, — Jim Butcher

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men? — Arjuna Ardagh

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I knew I should have been more worried about her motives. — R.K. Lilley

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. — Elizabeth Hardwick

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. — Ray Bradbury

Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had? — Erica Jong

Perhaps he should have been annoyed at the young man's tone, but it was only the truth. — Brandon Sanderson

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media ... But the internet is becoming the umbrella. — Larry Weber

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. — Doris Lessing

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday. — Stephenie Meyer

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. — Edvard Munch

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline. — Ashley Madekwe

Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot. — Harrison Ford

I have loved, I have been loved; should I never love again I am fortunate. — James W. Nelson

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious. — Lindsay Pulsipher

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. — Raymond Chandler