Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Lobby – a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people’s interests.

I started reading all these men’s magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you’re supposed to wear, what you’re supposed to have, things you’re supposed to say, and all the exercises you’re supposed to do.

It is very tough in England. Every away game is hard, of course. And normally, if you’re a big club like Chelsea, you’re supposed to win games at home against smaller clubs. But in England, that’s not the case. We must play well every game.

I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don’t feel anything at all for things I’m supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It’s not always like it is in the movies.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

Everybody understands that you’re supposed to say ‘our employees are our most valuable asset’ to the point where, even if it’s really true, they’re not going to really trust you until you’ve earned that – same with customers.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt, you ask me if the science is true. You say no, we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying to find out and everything is possibly wrong.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

With all the things I’ve been through, the No. 1 thing that I’ve learned is that we’re supposed to help people through this world.

Now where I come from We don’t let society Tell us how it’s supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don’t care It’s all about being there Everybody’s going Uptown That’s where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

You are not supposed to fear any action that will go in the service of God.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose

You speak sour lemonade to me. The bitter taste won’t let me be. One kiss was supposed to be so sweet. But I found grapefruit in your teeth. Old gum, is all you’ll ever be to me. I spit you out and brush my teeth.

If beings are grasped as will to power, the should which is supposed to hang suspended over them, against which they might be measured, becomes superfluous. If life itself is will to power, it is itself the ground, principium, of valuation. Then a should does not determine being. Being determines a should. When we talk of values we are speaking under the inspiration or optics of life: life itself compels us to set up values; life itself values through us whenever we posit values.

Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. Nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you’re not supposed to do.

If you ask me whether or not I’m an atheist, I wouldn’t even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I’m supposed not to believe in, and I’ve never seen an explanation.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune

We ain’t supposed to make it past 25, jokes on you, we still alive