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Quotes About Supposed

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
~ Edith Wharton
Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.
~ Edith Wharton
People feel overwhelmed by the news cycle, and by this nagging feeling that the kind of vitriol out of Washington is just not how we are supposed to act as a government, and as a nation.
~ Elissa Slotkin
I have made and accepted my own version of the natural order of things, and actually supposed a universe that has, or damn well ought to have, my convenience in mind.
~ Richard Mitchell
greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection.
~ Richard Rohr
I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.
~ Rick Riordan
I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or capital-G God, or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly...things happen for a reason.
~ Rick Riordan
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Never Let Me Go
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Ghost bird, do you love me?" he whispered once in the dark, before he left for his expedition training, even though he was the ghost. "Ghost bird, do you need me?" I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it
~ Elizabeth Kostova
always so firmly supposed she did; and it was why
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
~ Charles Kennedy
And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
~ Reba McEntire
Make the ridiculous ideal of 'equality' their rallying cry. Let them get so caught up in their supposed moral superiority that they'd rather see all men grovel in poverty than rise in differing levels of prosperity.
~ Richard Paul Evans
You can sleep now, you said. You can sleep now. You said that. I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that. You weren't supposed to.
~ Richard Siken
Oh, you'll what? You'll leave me? What's that supposed to be—a threat or a promise?
~ Richard Yates
How do you suppose we'd go about finding one?" she asked. "A psychiatrist, I mean. Aren't a lot of them supposed to be quacks? Well, but still, I guess that isn't really much of a problem, is it.
~ Richard Yates
Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words.
~ Richelle Mead
Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun
~ Peter Hitchens
even though, technically, Karanuk's previous publisher was supposed to get an exclusive
~ Debra Ginsberg
Ghost bird, do you love me?" he whispered once in the dark, before he left for his expedition training, even though he was the ghost. "Ghost bird, do you need me?" I loved him, but I did not need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. So the people that give their money over for these things might not be the only ones who aren't getting what they're supposed to out of it. They should think twice before picking one of them up.
~ Jello Biafra
She remained standing in front of me, watching expectantly. I began to wonder if I was supposed to say or do something. I began to feel a little uneasy. There was, after all, a long history in Soho of people being expected to do all kinds of extraordinary things after being handed some money.
~ Andrew Cartmel