Top 100 You Supposed Quotes
#1. That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?
David Baddiel
#2. It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.
Yekaterina Samutsevich
#3. Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
Terry McMillan
#4. If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
Angel Olsen
#5. It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious,' she said. 'I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?
Elif Batuman
#6. What are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune.
Anne Frank
#7. I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.
Gillian Flynn
#8. Where are you supposed to go when you no longer feel welcome in the places you turned to because you didn't feel welcome anywhere else?
Laura Jane Grace
#9. How are you supposed to find what you're looking for if you're not convinced it's even out there?
Jennifer E. Smith
#10. Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.
August Wilson
#11. Whoever you are holding me now in hand,
Without one thing all will be useless,
I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
I am not what you supposed, but far different."
-from "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
Walt Whitman
#12. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#13. What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?
Anne Ursu
#14. You don't choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love - that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can't stand to be apart from each other for even a moment - how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?
Jordan Belfort
#15. Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.
Ned Vizzini
#16. I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
Andy Rooney
#17. Dumping the tent onto the ground, I studied it fiercely.
All right, I can do this. How hard can it be, really?
Kneeling, I picked up a long metal spike, frowning.
What in the world? Are you supposed to stab someone with these? Do tents come with vampire-slaying kits?
Julie Kagawa
#18. What are you supposed to do when you forget what normal feels like?
Amy Reed
#19. What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?
Maggie O'Farrell
#20. We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?
Helen Gurley Brown
#21. It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?
Kelly Braffet
#22. If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
Jules Feiffer
#23. I might be new at this," Zak gasped. "But aren't you supposed to move?"
"Wait."
"How long? Do I have time to do a Sudoku?"
Logan growled. "Shut up.
Barbara Elsborg
#24. What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?
Emma Goldman
#25. A dementor," I say. "What in God's holy name is that?" "A dementor? From Harry Potter?" "Well, put your hood back, for the love of Jesus. And who are you supposed to be?" "Kim Kardashian," says Leah, just completely deadpan. Garrett looks confused. "Tohru from Fruits Basket.
Becky Albertalli
#26. How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?
Hyman Rickover
#27. I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home.
Elizabeth Scott
#28. How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards?
Jean-Michel Guenassia
#29. I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?"
"Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.
J.D. Robb
#30. Fucking holidays, William thought. Occasions to rethink your life, ostensibly, but how were you supposed to do that when other people kept dragging you back toward whoever you used to be?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#31. And who are you supposed to be? My Prince Charming?" He snorts at that. "No, silly girl. I'm the big bad wolf.
Callie Hart
#32. Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
Palmer Luckey
#33. And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen."
Jenny blinked. "I'm no expert on this, but ... are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?
Maggie Osborne
#34. I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?
Macy Gray
#35. Aren't you supposed to be taking my order?' I asked.
'Bite me. And then you can tell me what's wrong.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#36. Act by everyone, in the same manner as if you supposed yourself to be him, and him to be you.
Hierocles
#37. So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.
Sandra Cisneros
#38. Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?"
"I ... had trouble concentrating."
"So you came up on deck," Jasnah said, "to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this to help your concentration?
Brandon Sanderson
#39. Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.
Ray Comfort
#40. How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?
Laura Wiess
#41. I'm not any religion myself, but for the record, I'm pretty sure I do believe in God. It's just a feeling I have. I can't prove it, but since when are you supposed to prove a feeling? God is the only situation where they expect you to do that. Plus, God embarrasses people. Which I totally enjoy.
Frank Portman
#42. Where are you supposed to stay?" He ground out ...
"Hendrix, are you kidding me?"
"By me, Reagan. Always, by me," he answered, ignoring my sarcasm.
Rachel Higginson
#43. Okay ... ' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.
Jonathan Stroud
#44. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?
Madonna Ciccone
#45. But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
Lynda Barry
#46. - So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front?
- Yes - I have warned them all.
Libba Bray
#47. Hey, aren't we forgetting something? (Savitar)
Your dignity? (Takeshi)
No, you have me confused with you again. Aren't you supposed to be training him? (Savitar)
So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences?
Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#49. But that's depression, isn't it? It makes you selfish. It ... it shrinks your world down. Like you're inside a tornado or something. How are you supposed to care about the things outside that storm? When it's all you can do to just survive it?
Rebecca Rogers Maher
#50. Don't you let nothing stop you from shining the way you supposed to! That be your job, every tick of the clock, just like them stars, until God himself tells you otherwise.
Mark Caldwell Jones
#51. How are you supposed to feel if you are forced to do what you would have done anyway?
Dennis E. Taylor
#52. What were you supposed to do?" he asks in an amused voice.
"Save you. Only I wasn't actually supposed to do that, was I?"
"That's the hardest part," he says. " The absence of certainty.
Cynthia Hand
#53. A man goes to a fancy dress party dressed only in his Y-fronts. A woman comes up to him and says "What are you supposed to be?" The man says "A premature ejaculation." "What?" says the woman. The man explains "I've just come in my pants."
Tommy Cooper
#54. Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
Caitlin Moran
#55. And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
Candace Bushnell
#56. And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?
Michael Buckley
#57. You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.
Lil' Wayne
#58. And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?
Lynn Plourde
#59. You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
Mike Epps
#60. If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.
Shane Smith
#61. Hey, we had a deal. Aren't you supposed to take off your clothes now?"
"It would only be pity sex," she said, in a mock confessional. "I won't insult you like that."
"Go ahead. Insult me.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#62. How the heck are you supposed to have a reasonable conversation with someone who buys a BMW?
Fredrik Backman
#64. What the hell is that?" I asked. "I mean, what are you supposed to be dressed like?" "I'm a sexy carrot." I looked at Dad and shook my head slowly. He wouldn't meet my eyes.
Joanna Wylde
#65. How're you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?" "Lasso one?" Ron suggested.
J.K. Rowling
#66. How the hell are you supposed to survive, when the part of you that you need to live is walking around outside your body?
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#67. I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.
Marv Levy
#68. I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.
Henning Mankell
#69. It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?
Joe Hill
#70. I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
T. Harv Eker
#71. Aren't you supposed to say that everything is going to be okay?
C.V. Hunt
#72. What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
Edward Bennett Williams
#73. I need to get to that tea party and wake up the guests."
Jeb looks at me. "And how are you supposed to do that? Give a magical kiss to the half-baked hatmaker?
A.G. Howard
#74. Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.
"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.
Libba Bray
#76. I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.
Rupert Grint
#77. The doctor gave me a relaxation cassette. When my blood pressure gets too high, the man on the tape tells me to say 'SERENITY NOW!' Are you supposed to yell it? The man on the tape wasn't specific. - Seinfeld
Charlie Hoehn
#78. God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?
Ricky Gervais
#80. 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 night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
T.C. Boyle
#81. But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin,
Douglas Adams
#82. Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?
Richard Russo
#83. If asking for a sign is asking for too much, how else are you supposed to truly believe on your own? The only other way is to believe what you are told, and that hasn't worked for her.
Chris Dietzel
#84. How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one.
Margaret Atwood
#86. A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#88. To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
Majora Carter
#89. Nothing left but true: "You're gravity I can't escape." His sore heart labored beats in the darkness. "What am I supposed to do with that?" she said. "What you can," he said. "What you want.
James Grady
#90. Tory a father isn't supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.
Kathy Reichs
#91. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#92. Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?
Philip K. Dick
#93. 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
#94. After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.
Emily Dickinson
#95. I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.
Eric Bana
#96. We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver
#97. My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
Dustin Hoffman
#98. Find someone to push him ever sunward.
There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.
Don DeLillo
#99. Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
Earl Campbell
#100. As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
Bette Midler
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