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Quotes About Supposed

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
~ Herman Melville
Yemen is a symbol of our continued military hubris in the Middle East - an addiction Obama was supposed to cure but didn't.
~ Chris Murphy
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
~ James Surowiecki
Most often, perishing is a slow, painful process, and if you aren't paying attention, it will trick you into thinking that this is the way things are supposed to be. By failing to have a vision, you are stripping yourself of every possible blessing, relationship, and opportunity. When you sit by and just let your life perish without a vision, it is the most painful kind of death.
~ Steve Harvey
I was supposed to be the mouthpiece and financial backer of the NWO but what really happened as this thing got hotter, Eric Bischoff saw where he could slip himself into the role that he hired me for. And that's what he did.
~ Ted DiBiase Sr.
He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies.
~ Richelle Mead
The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.
~ Susanna Moore
But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
~ Terry Pratchett
Now look , snapped the Dean, we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
~ Terry Pratchett
No man was more sensitive than Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collectivities. He would have viewed with horror the cacophony of monomanias—sexual, racial, social, egalitarian—that marks the intellectual life of our societies, each monomaniac demanding legislative restriction on the freedom of others in the name of a supposed greater, collective good.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.
~ Chris Stapleton
Madonna working with Justin Timberlake is supposed be cool but I don't think there's anything cool about it.
~ Tricky
If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled. "To be the little spoon.
~ Karen Chance
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
~ Karl Marx
Turner was pushed farther and farther back, wondering why they didn't see that Mrs. Cobb would have hated all the fuss, that they were shoving furniture from where it was supposed to be, that they had bunched up the runner in the front hall. Maybe this was what death was - when no one cared about one dang thing you had cared about.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
~ Herman Melville
God was once supposed to be a grown-up, but in disputes He childishly took sides.
~ Ian Mcewan
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
~ Ellen G. White
I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
~ J. Cole
In the act of violating their supposed victim, they surrender their soul to the magician's power.
~ Storm Constantine
Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.
~ Stuart Hill
As we shall see later, according to certain traditions, metals are also supposed to have issued from the flesh or blood of some immolated primordial, semi-divine being.
~ Mircea Eliade
Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.
~ Carolyn Brown