Supposed Quotes
2979 Supposed quotes by 2039 unique authors
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Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because…
— Unknown Author
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When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed…
— John Edgar Wideman
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There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you…
— Scott Lively
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I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as…
— Unknown Author
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What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win.
— Sue Enquist
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I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off…
— Marion Jones
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I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm…
— Cassandra Wilson
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And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time,…
— Rod Steiger
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
— William James
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed…
— Joan Halifax
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I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know…
— Lloyd Bridges
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory…
— Charles Lane Poor
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.
— Harry Enfield
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[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach…
— Nehemiah Grew
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the…
— William Buckland
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There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of…
— Unknown Author
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By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.…
— Democritus
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Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means…
— Mary Everest Boole
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of…
— Unknown Author
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...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral…
— Richard Furman
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All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
— Robert L. Park
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Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up
— Eve Babitz
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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in;…
— Sanford Meisner
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