Top 100 Didn't Mean Quotes
#1. I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough ... they didn't mean enough
Mos Def
#2. It would be easier if reaching out to you, didn't mean reaching in.
Pleasefindthis
#3. Also not the kind of place to hide a server."
"Is that another pun?" She asked.
"No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."
~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5
Ridley Pearson
#4. Yes, all the inhabitants of the store had left. But that didn't mean we were alone.
Jonathan Stroud
#5. Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.
Vicki Pettersson
#6. You really don't understand, do you? I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything.
Neil Gaiman
#7. Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
Art Garfunkel
#8. I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
Neil Gaiman
#9. I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth
#10. She was smiling. She looked happy, but that didn't mean anything. She always looked happy...
Rainbow Rowell
#11. There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.
Mickey Rooney
#12. I respected the man. It didn't mean that I wouldn't pants him on national television if I got the opportunity,
Jim Butcher
#13. My apologies. I meant no offense." Except that his tone told her he didn't mean a word he'd just spoken.
Jean Oram
#14. I shivered. The story was true. The Wizard of Oz had been real. Dorothy Gale had really been swept up by a tornado and brought to the Land of Oz. True, what I was living now didn't seem like the kind of storybook tale I was used to. But it didn't mean they didn't exist.
Danielle Paige
#15. People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn't mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.
Jeff Sessions
#16. She wasn't just a cyborg anymore. She was Lunar now. She could make people see things that weren't there. Feel things they shouldn't feel. Do things they didn't mean to do.
Marissa Meyer
#18. I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
Anne McCaffrey
#19. Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
Tupac Shakur
#20. When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. Garrett never looked straight at her, sideways yes, but never straight. Couldn't concentrate that way. Too uncomfortable. That didn't mean Garrett didn't see what was right in front of him.
Destiny Booze
#22. I'm sorry, I didn't mean--"
"To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.
Tamora Pierce
#23. She laughed. That didn't mean what he'd said was funny. It just mean they were still in that early phase of a romance, the part where you laughed, funny or not.
Marshall Thornton
#24. Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
Raymond Chandler
#25. Simon nodded. "You need your beauty sleep."
"Do I?" I said coolly.
"I didn't mean," Simon stuttered. "I meant ... you're a girl and all."
"Thanks for telling me,
Amanda Howells
#26. Just because I had the resources and a good idea didn't mean the timing was right. I was operating on Nick's time instead of God's. When
Nick Vujicic
#27. It would never work, Ellie." "Why?" "Because we're friends, and I want to continue to be friends." "You just told me to kill myself." He chuckled. "I didn't mean it.
Jamie McGuire
#28. Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.
Sue Monk Kidd
#29. If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.
Charles L. Smith
#30. I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
Damon Lindelof
#31. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.
Simone Elkeles
#32. I hurt just like them white women. Just 'cause I wasn't hooping and hollering before didn't mean I wasn't feeling pain. What'd they think? That just 'cause I knowed how to have a baby with no fuss that my behind wasn't pulling and aching like theirs?
Toni Morrison
#33. I went up to a man and said 'Jesus loves you' but I realised that it didn't mean anything unless I did it.
Jackie Pullinger
#34. Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.
Jennifer E. Smith
#35. If she had to, she would do it - but that didn't mean she wasn't afraid of dying. Everyone was afraid of dying.
Annette Marie
#36. I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones.
David Levithan
#37. I mean, were you born a freak?" I asked. I flinched at my own words. I didn't mean to be rude it just came out that way. The girl rolled her eyes to me. "I don't know. Were you born stupid?" Okay, maybe I deserved that. "Yeah, probably.
Dinah Katt
#38. The fact that he gave her the creeps just proved she was normal. He had the flat, dead face of an item turned out by machines. His eyes were cold as marbles pressed into dough. His insides went with the surface. He could beat a man insane or take it himself, and it didn't mean a thing to him.
Walter Kaylin
#39. Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I'm the lowest grade.'
'I didn't mean to criticize you.'
'I promise to be better in my next life ...
Jo Nesbo
#40. Truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
Naomi Novik
#41. Now I really feel sorry for her. Your hand is as bad as Rob's paddle," Cassie shuddered.
"Thank you."
"I didn't mean it as a compliment!
Breanna Hayse
#42. I really didn't mean to steal it." Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. "Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories.
Robert Holdstock
#43. Just because that was the start of a thousand sentimental stories didn't mean that it didn't actually happen.
Iain M. Banks
#44. I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.
Ann Aguirre
#45. We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.
Betty Friedan
#46. As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.
Simon McBurney
#47. Brush those tears from your eyes
And try and realize
That from now on
I'll always be true.
I went away
But I didn't mean to stay
And I will regret it until my dying day.
Edna O'Brien
#48. This, I realized suddenly, was friendship. You didn't always agree, and you both might do things the other person wished you didn't, but it didn't mean things came to a grinding halt. It didn't mean you stopped being friends. You got over it, and you moved on.
Sara J. Henry
#49. Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
Janet Fitch
#50. Emily thought maybe it was simpler than that: Some people gave money instead of love because it was all they had to give. A full bank account and a life of good deeds achieved with money didn't mean a full heart or a giving soul - often just the opposite.
Lisa Unger
#51. I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.
Toby Keith
#52. She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#53. That didn't mean, of course, that he was ready to headlong into single life. If it happened, it happened. And if it didn't? He figured he'd cross that bridge when he came to it. He was willing to wait for the right person, someone who not only brought joy back into his life..
Nicholas Sparks
#54. Yes, she was imperfect. But that didn't mean she wasn't also spectacular.
Victoria Dahl
#55. I was determined to be both pretty and fierce, as Mother had said I could be. Just because I was interested in a man's job didn't mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow? "Truly,
Kerri Maniscalco
#56. I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
Joe Biden
#57. Daisy," he whispered, turning until she was tucked beneath him once more. "I didn't mean for this to happen." His fingers investigated the fragile angles of her face, the smiling curve of her lips. "But now it seems impossible that I held out as long as I did.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. Her smile didn't mean her suffering was over, but when it appeared it was something beautiful to see; a rare flower.
Melissa C. Water
#59. I'm not sure of anything," he admitted.
"But I didn't mean to freak you out before. I just can't seem to keep my hands off you. I don't want to keep my hands off you."
~Wyatt
Sydney Croft
#60. I didn't mean to fall in love with you, but I did.
- Chelsea
Rachel Gibson
#61. High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.
Gerald Durrell
#62. I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.
R.L. Burnside
#63. What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!"
"Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me."
Max: (tries to punch him)
"Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it."
Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)
James Patterson
#64. You're unbelievable."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
"I know you didn't mean it as one, Juliet, but when you think about it, what could be more glorious than to be too much, too out of the ordinary, to be believed?
Louisa Edwards
#65. You could love many people in your life. Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.
Caroline Leavitt
#66. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.
Phil Ochs
#67. I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
Dolly Parton
#68. I know he didn't mean to be popular
to have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite.
Jodi Picoult
#69. The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.
Sara Shepard
#70. If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.
Nora Roberts
#71. Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.
Trina M. Lee
#72. My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human ... a woman if you will.
Sarah Kay
#73. Yeah, I can read", he said. "Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?
Scott Westerfeld
#74. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.
Sherwood Smith
#75. I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.
Lewis Carroll
#76. I didn't mean to fall for her, but I did. And in my fear of losing her, I did just that.
Rachel Harris
#77. Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. Now, Sabin. He didn't mean any harm. He's borderline stupid. You know that.
Gena Showalter
#79. If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.
Gwen Cooper
#80. Learning that a snake was afraid when it bit didn't mean it would never bite again.
A.R. Ivanovich
#81. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.
Angela N. Blount
#82. People looked at me, shocked.
I gave them a nice big smile. That's right, look what big teeth I have. I knew I was a vegetarian, but aside from Jim and a few friends, nobody else did. Besides, just because I didn't eat meat, didn't mean I wouldn't bite.
Ilona Andrews
#83. Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
Jodi Picoult
#84. When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags.
Sherry Gammon
#85. Have you tried to talk to her?"
"What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED.
Lynsay Sands
#86. if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.
Laura Bradford
#87. After the winter of thorns came spring. The roses would bloom again. But if she lost Mr. Morland, she'd be chopping down the whole bush. Killing the thorns, to be sure, but killing the beautiful roses too. Just because she couldn't always see the flowers didn't mean they were not still there.
Julie Daines
#88. But when I told you I loved you, I meant it. I didn't mean that I'd love you only if it was easy, or only if it was drama-free. I think we both know life isn't like that.
J. Sterling
#89. Laurel was no bullshit. She didn't say things she didn't mean.
Jenny Han
#90. I have never written a note I didn't mean.
Erik Satie
#91. Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.
Patricia Briggs
#92. IN MY DEFENSE, I didn't mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn't just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.
J.C. Nelson
#93. He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. I said it again, one last time, even though i didn't mean it.
"Conrad let go of me."
He did. And then he dunked me. It didn't matter. I was already holding my breath.
Jenny Han
#94. Don't ask me to treat you like some woman who didn't mean anything to me, because you aren't and I can't.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#95. Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
Richard Russo
#96. Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.
Osamu Dazai
#97. Hank spoke. "I'm sorry."
"You said that."
A small laugh escaped his mouth. "Yeah, but I didn't mean it then.
Aria Kane
#98. He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#99. Sorry! I didn't mean to say that," I mumble into the pillow next to her head.
"Oh."
"No! I mean, I meant what I said. I just didn't mean to tell you.
Victoria Denault
#100. Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.
Maud Hart Lovelace
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