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They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that… — Eric Metaxas
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of… — Aldous Huxley
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If… — Anne Fine
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. — Erich Fromm
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. — Kristin Harmel
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people… — Steve Albini
Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
Whenever an opportunity comes your way, challenge yourself to first thank God and then quickly follow up with the question, “God, who else is supposed… — Lysa TerKeurst
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining… — William Shakespeare
Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would… — Gore Vidal
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless… — Ingrid Newkirk
Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop… — Ron Wyden
Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work… — Alan Gottlieb
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 Africa’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

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