Supposed Quotes

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King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control… — James A. Baldwin
What is South Africaâ€™s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe? — Jeremy Riddle
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do… — A J Liebling
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting… — Wendy Wasserstein
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. — Moshe Dayan
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this… — Helen Fielding
War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be… — Art Buchwald
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting… — Alberto Manguel
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science… — Robert M. Pirsig
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet,… — Neil Postman
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed. — Susan Sontag
I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second. — Lee Iacocca
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and… — Lewis Thomas
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the… — Marvin Olasky
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are… — Anthony Burgess
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny… — Edgar Friedenberg
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark… — T.C. Boyle

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