Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 28

• You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if youre going to be happy and authentic. Food isnt supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

  Jorge Cruise

  Kids, Entertainment, Way

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• Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Given, Estates

  "Townson v. Tickell". Barnewall and Alderson's King's Bench Reports, 1820.

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• We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fashion, Law, Land

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• I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

  Albert Pujols

  Jobs, Blessed, People

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• Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Mean, Superstitions, Helping

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.409

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• most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.

  Eda LeShan

  Marriage, Demand, Wonderful

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• I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Spiritual, Thinking, Pulse

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.

  Nas

  Moving, Hip Hop, Important

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we're sensitive by nature, we're more vulnerable, we absorb other people's ideas about what we're supposed to think or who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a joke." Well, why should satire be in the service of humanizing these people who are supposed to be the target of our venom and vitriol? I think that's unseemly.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, People, Political

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• We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Parent, Christmas Card

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

  Hugh Hefner

  America, Mind, Church

  Source: nsarchive.gwu.edu

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• Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

  James Cromwell

  Thinking, Keys, Self

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• I know I'm not strong enough to be everything that I'm supposed to be. I give up. I'm not stong enough. Hands of mercy won't you cover me? Lord right now I'm asking you to be Strong enough. Strong enough for the both of us.

  Matthew West

  Strong, Giving Up, Hands

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Jun 04, 2011

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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Elderly, Sick, Parent

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• There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

  Robert Browning

  Light, May, Way

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• Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

  Germaine Greer

  Reading, Sleep, Vices

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• If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

  T. H. White

  People, Heaven, Arthur

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• Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Waiting, World

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

  John Green

  Girl, Alaska, Years

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.23, Penguin

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• The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

  Ned Vizzini

  Giving, Brain, Enough Time

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Smart, Taken, Kids

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Being In Love, Stuff, Making Up

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Judging, Care, Doe

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.29, Random House

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• You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Nice, People

  "The 700 Club", January 14, 1991.

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