Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 39

• In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

  Richard Rohr

  Solitude, Demand, Able

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• Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Reading, Twilight, First Love

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, Ears, Hawks

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.435, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, Pigs, Potters

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• Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

  Candace Bushnell

  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself

  Candace Bushnell (2014). “The Carrie Diaries and Summer in the City”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane. "Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?" "Is that supposed to be a proposal?

  Christine Feehan

  Names, Saint, Use

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Ruthless Game”, p.108, Penguin

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• There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

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• Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

  C.C. Hunter

  Easy, Results, Harder

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.49, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

  Albert Hofmann

  Thinking, Tools, Substance

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Happy Endings, Sometimes, Said

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.730, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Simple

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• I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet.

  Tina Fey

  Gay, Secret, Half

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• You're really not that good a mechanic, Edward. Maybe you should have Rosalie take a look at it tonight, just so you look good if Mike decides to let you help, you know. Not that it wouldn't be fun to watch his face if Rosalie showed up to help. But since Rosalie is supposed to be across the country attending college, I guess that's not the best idea. Too bad.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Country, Fun, College

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

  Rick Warren

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Missing, Vacuums

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.21, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Matter, Turns

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1513, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Guarantees That, People

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• Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Boys, Scary

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Mean, Today

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.211, Random House

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• I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Years, I've Learned, Avoiding

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• Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

  Daniel Handler

  Money, Children, Eye

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• If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

  Erich von Däniken

  Eye, Ideas, Doubt

  Erich von Däniken (1969). “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”

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