Should Have Quotes — Page 34

Writer, Humorist

“We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"”

Thinking Technology Should Have

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Charles Dickens

Novelist

“I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.”

Inspirational Should Have Broken

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Douglas Wilson

Author

“God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been”

Should Have Has Beens

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Cormac McCarthy

Novelist, Screenwriter

“For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?”

Should Said

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Chester Brown

Cartoonist, Author

“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.”

Thinking Hurt Should Have

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Chinua Achebe

Novelist, Poet

“When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.”

Want Should Have Agency

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Chris Rock

Comedian, Actor, Writer

“The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.”

Should Have Empty Osama Bin Laden

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Clive James

Writer

“When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.”

Book Should Have Discipline

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Conan O'Brien

Television Host, Comedian

“Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.”

Looks Should Have Cosmetics

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

“They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.”

Firsts Suffering Should Have

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

“I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.”

Quality Should Have Shapes

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Betty Smith

Author

“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.”

Thinking Writing Should Have

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