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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. — Georgia O'Keeffe

There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find. — Richard K. Morgan

I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there. — Jim Butcher

W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches. — Anne Bishop

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist. — Jonathan Miller

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

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

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

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

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs. — Pete Seeger

Tasting what could have been - what should have been - didn't make it easier. — Kele Moon

I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me... — Brad McKinniss

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be. — Ed Asner

For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. — Oscar Wilde

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy. — C.S. Lewis

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing. — James Salter

I have learned that it is easier to say later what one should have said before, than to unsay what should not have been said at all. — Melvin R. Starr

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare

That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been. — B.G. Harlen

I do not know how he even managed to do what he did. He should not have been able to, but he did. He defended my home. Me. Himself. Us. — Jasinda Wilder

Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born. — Anthony Hecht

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place. — Richard Paul Evans

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not. — Francis Collins

None OF Days Are Ever Promised ... So Don't Waste Another, Being Angry And Upset Over What Was Done To You, You Don't Have Or Should Have Been. — Timothy Pina

I write not only what I want to read ... I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been. — Julia Quinn

James rolled his eyes. "That was way harder than it should have been." "That's what he said. — Eli Easton

The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been. — Louis L'Amour

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there. — Ann Rule

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus

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

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

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

I cried for what should have been. — Lawrence Schimel

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

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

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