Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 35

• When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

  Carlton Mellick III

  School, Mean, Back When

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• Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at that dirty dog! Look at that burned-down house! Look at that red sky!’ And the child points, and you look, and you see, and you start going, ‘Wow! Look at that huge crazy hedge! Look at that teeny little baby! Look at the scary dark cloud!’ I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Baby, Children

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• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fashion, Real, School

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• If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Exercise, Recipes, Want

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, School, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• . . . but there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

  Barry Lyga

  Order, Ideas, Speak

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.

  Tao Lin

  True Life, Video, Incredibles

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• Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

  Mitch Albom

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.

  Margaret Atwood

  Responsibility, Thinking, Bridges

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

  Anne Rice

  Grief, Mean, Eye

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• Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Doorways, Starting

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.329, Faber & Faber

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• When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

  Nancy Werlin

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Real

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.249, Penguin

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• some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

  Judy Blume

  Way, Truth Is, Happens

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Sep 25, 2012

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• Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?” Stark asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor. I am!” Heath and Erik said together.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Voice, Your Boyfriend

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.3, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Kissing, Missing, Bills

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.954, Penguin

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• Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Talking, Rooms

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• But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Thinking, Battle

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Giving, Fiction

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• I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

  Fannie Flagg

  Love, Relationship, Heart

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• Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

  Maureen Johnson

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• If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.

  James Van Praagh

  Fall, Looks, Way

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• You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Angel, Be Kind, Meetings

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Blood, Knowing

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" Pretty much.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Court, Faerie

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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