#posed

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #divisions #opposed #political #race

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together. ↗

— Courtney Love

#healthy #kept #movie #movie stars #nutritionally

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#hungry #salmon #spawn #supposed #swimming

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #i am #imposed #lifestyle #me

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#bother #composed #i #looking #view

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#below #comeback #dropped #means #own

The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work. ↗

— Wink Martindale

#care #considered #doing #home #i