Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Should Have Quotes, History Quotes

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Law Quotes

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Should Have Quotes

When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Should Have Quotes

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

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

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.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Fishing Quotes

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , War Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Believe Quotes , Should Have Quotes

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Should Have Quotes

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Doubt Quotes

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

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Tags : Ahmet Ertegun Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Lawyer Quotes

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Justice Quotes

Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Should Have Quotes

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Boys Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Fading Quotes

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Horse Quotes , Should Have Quotes