Should Have Quotes — Page 46

Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

“Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.”

Age Time Should Have

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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”

Writing Should Have Epic Poems

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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.”

Should Ends Should Have

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Mike Thompson

Politician

“Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.”

Firsts United States Should Have

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Morgan Freeman

Actor, Narrator

“A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'”

People Should Have Awards

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Mira Grant

Author

“The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.”

Winning Should Have Zombie

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Mira Grant

Author

“What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.”

Should Have Sorry Pie

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Horace Mann

Educator

“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

Race Should Have Opposites

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Lloyd Alexander

Author

“I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.”

Thinking Kings Should Have

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?”

Want Should Have Tyrants

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”

Should Have Vices Fishing

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Melinda Gates

Philanthropist, businesswoman

“Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.”

Should Have Tools Pregnancy

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