Top 100 Not Supposed To Be Quotes
#1. I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
Adolf Galland
#2. I am not supposed to be here," he said. Drew circled her arm through his. "Oh, please. You're perfect here, sweetie.
Rick Riordan
#3. We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.
Jane Fonda
#5. It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.
Carl Edwards
#6. When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.
Prince
#7. Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!
Camila Alves
#8. In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies ... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'
Robert Pattinson
#10. As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Michael Azerrad
#11. If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.
Soren Kierkegaard
#12. The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.
Matt Taibbi
#13. Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine.
Khalid Muhammad
#14. My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
Sarah Palin
#15. The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja
#16. We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Ben Stein
#17. Love it's not supposed to be complicated. It must be easy. It should not need begging and imploring. Love must be simple, because it's just the beginning of a long journey.
Kambiz Shabankareh
#18. It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
Craig Charles
#19. The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.
Kris Vallotton
#20. My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
Drew Barrymore
#21. People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.
Emily Lazar
#22. The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.
John Kiriakou
#24. It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
Jeri Ryan
#25. I realized I'm not supposed to be pursuing impact, I'm supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.
Phil Vischer
#26. Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.
Nenia Campbell
#27. You are not behind. You are not lagging. You are not supposed to be somewhere else. You are exactly where you should be. Embrace now and go from there. Don't think that you have to catch up to something.
Mark Sutton
#28. I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.
Albert Pujols
#29. A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.
Pamela Anderson
#30. If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.
Estelle
#31. In general, I find that when you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, the best course of action is to act as if you are absolutely supposed to be doing it.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#32. Listen carefully, and don't panic." With his eyes still on that wretched spot behind her, he slid his right hand slowly to the hilt of his saber.
"What am I not supposed to be panicking about?" she snapped. He was scaring her to death, the wretch, and probably for nothing!
Sabrina Jeffries
#33. I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
Ed Skrein
#34. Oh, no, no, no," I repeated, shaking my head. The room started to spin, and I couldn't hold my head up any longer. I collapsed back against the pillow. That's when I saw his silhouette at the door. "I'm not supposed to be here," I cried. "I'm not supposed to be in yesterday.
Rebecca Donovan
#35. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
#36. A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.
Fran Lebowitz
#37. There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
Janet Tashjian
#39. We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.
Rick Warren
#40. Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
Sugata Mitra
#41. Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.
David Baldacci
#42. Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.
Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized.
Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.
Eoin Colfer
#43. Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
John Boyne
#44. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Virginia Postrel
#45. But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley
#46. You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.
Zach Galifianakis
#47. But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
Banksy
#48. By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.
Dan Rather
#49. Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.
Gail Carriger
#50. Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
Aziz Ansari
#51. If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled.
"To be the little spoon.
Karen Chance
#52. 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
#53. We need to pull over now," she screeched as she gagged. "Paper is not supposed to be made out of poop.
Robyn Peterman
#54. If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
Joss Stone
#55. There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.
Frances Hardinge
#56. You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget.
Daisy Whitney
#57. It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Po Bronson
#58. It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.
Charlie Munger
#59. It doesn't sound very safe." - Colt
"We're breaking into a company owned by aliens who want to wipe humans off the map. It's not supposed to be safe." - Oz
"I guess you have a point." - Colt
Jon S. Lewis
#60. The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It's a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus's kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task.
N. T. Wright
#61. You are my wife. I'm supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I'm not supposed to be one.
Colleen Hoover
#62. I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
Moshe Dayan
#63. Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.
Kevin Fitzgerald
#64. A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.
Jennifer Lopez
#65. Meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.
Thrangu Rinpoche
#66. Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?' She said, 'Well, Dad, they're round and they're messy. But that's what makes them fun. Once we get older we're not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you're eating a Valomilk, it's okay to be messy again.
Steve Almond
#67. There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
Kathleen Hanna
#68. And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them.
And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk.
Robert Rankin
#69. I'm a bloodsucking fiend," she said. "I'm not supposed to be reassuring.
Sarah Beth Durst
#70. A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
Kathleen Turner
#71. Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them
A.J. Wiliams
#72. That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.
Alan Keyes
#73. I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
Barry Sanders
#74. Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
Carole Bouquet
#75. You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
David Edwards
#76. I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.
Gregg Allman
#77. As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be
Maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.
Tammara Webber
#78. Marriage is hard, labor-intensive. It's not supposed to be easy.
Patricia Elam
#79. I'm not supposed to be anything else than a man that's stupidly in love with you. That's what I know.
Karina Halle
#80. People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.
Paul Walker
#81. We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
Ted Cruz
#82. Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.
Dick Gregory
#83. No, listen. Us girls, we might all look different, but we're pretty similar underneath. We like to appear responsible, to do what's expected of us, we're not supposed to be reckless and wild and go off running with dodgy space tramps like you. But give us a nudge and
Charlie Higson
#84. Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#85. We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
Randall Kennedy
#86. Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
Tom Glazer
#87. I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Carl Lewis
#88. I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.
Emily Meade
#89. I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
Lily Tomlin
#90. Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.
Paula Patton
#91. Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.
Jane Fonda
#92. It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
Skip Coryell
#93. I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.
Tara Reid
#94. Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
David Borenstein
#95. At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.
Claire Danes
#96. 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
#97. Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.
Hedi Slimane
#98. When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
Nick Lowe
#99. I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.
Charles Eisenstein
#100. I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'
Lindsay Duncan
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