Top 100 Meant Nothing Quotes

#1. Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

Sarah Glenn Marsh

Meant Nothing Quotes #226
#2. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

Meant Nothing Quotes #20816
#3. There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.

Rick Yancey

Meant Nothing Quotes #26084
#4. I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

Lucy Ellmann

Meant Nothing Quotes #28799
#5. I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything.

A.L. Jackson

Meant Nothing Quotes #30542
#6. ... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

Klavan

Meant Nothing Quotes #31739
#7. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

Meant Nothing Quotes #36185
#8. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.

Malcolm Lowry

Meant Nothing Quotes #52561
#9. Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

Shimon Peres

Meant Nothing Quotes #55645
#10. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.

Lisa Kleypas

Meant Nothing Quotes #57167
#11. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.

Jasinda Wilder

Meant Nothing Quotes #62691
#12. Please," he added. "I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!

Emma Donoghue

Meant Nothing Quotes #64510
#13. In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

Peter Lindbergh

Meant Nothing Quotes #66717
#14. Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go.

Sylvain Reynard

Meant Nothing Quotes #71096
#15. I love you, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. There is nothing I would not do for you. Nothing I would not consider if it meant keeping you safe. The world itself should fear me if it stands between us.

Renee Ahdieh

Meant Nothing Quotes #73196
#16. The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

Thomas Hardy

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#17. Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.

Rena Marks

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#18. Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything ... Nothing happens without a reason ... Nothing is impossible ... (Page 180).

Rosamunde Pilcher

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#19. Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?

Vladimir Nabokov

Meant Nothing Quotes #85974
#20. He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

Richard O'Brien

Meant Nothing Quotes #86196
#21. I'm nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.
I could have done it. I should have done it.
I sat there and I thought about you, instead.

Julio Alexi Genao

Meant Nothing Quotes #88853
#22. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Julia Quinn

Meant Nothing Quotes #109741
#23. My literary success meant nothing to me.

Taylor Caldwell

Meant Nothing Quotes #113695
#24. But Jo wasn't angry. Not anymore. He couldn't really tell if what he had been before was angry. It was an emotion he had no use for, that accomplished nothing and meant even less than that. If anything, what Jo really felt was tired.

Yaa Gyasi

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#25. Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.

Emerson Hough

Meant Nothing Quotes #120278
#26. The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Beth Moore

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#27. [He] mumbled something about how being a Hungarian meant wanting nothing and being prepared for anything. Or was it the other way around.

Jessica Anthony

Meant Nothing Quotes #127228
#28. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Andre Agassi

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#29. Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.

Ellen Hopkins

Meant Nothing Quotes #136767
#30. History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.

Steven Erikson

Meant Nothing Quotes #140232
#31. Its other name was Satis, which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three
or all one to me
for enough ... but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else.

Charles Dickens

Meant Nothing Quotes #150103
#32. Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blared. They were announcing departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me.

Albert Camus

Meant Nothing Quotes #152296
#33. Home is meant to be a place, but for me Dec was my home. He was where I felt secure and loved, and time did nothing to diminish that. No matter what.

Sean Kennedy

Meant Nothing Quotes #173047
#34. I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

Walter Ciszek

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#35. R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

Ambrose Bierce

Meant Nothing Quotes #179525
#36. My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Harrison Ford

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#37. This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,

Marlon James

Meant Nothing Quotes #203291
#38. Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by - nothing at all, simply imagination.

Patricia Highsmith

Meant Nothing Quotes #208899
#39. The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many ... somethings. So, thanks.

Nora Ephron

Meant Nothing Quotes #216248
#40. There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful ... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

Amy Carmichael

Meant Nothing Quotes #217574
#41. A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Andre Malraux

Meant Nothing Quotes #225058
#42. Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.

Gregory David Roberts

Meant Nothing Quotes #227363
#43. I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

Dawn Olivieri

Meant Nothing Quotes #238512
#44. I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Emily Giffin

Meant Nothing Quotes #242193
#45. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.

C.E. Murphy

Meant Nothing Quotes #246367
#46. This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't

John Irving

Meant Nothing Quotes #270000
#47. Perhaps our triumphs are not even the point. Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Meant Nothing Quotes #276196
#48. Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!

John Vianney

Meant Nothing Quotes #277334
#49. Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

Meant Nothing Quotes #291273
#50. It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

Caitlin Moran

Meant Nothing Quotes #296940
#51. Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.

Gareth Roberts

Meant Nothing Quotes #304260
#52. Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henrik Clarke

Meant Nothing Quotes #312568
#53. It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved.

Jodi Picoult

Meant Nothing Quotes #313591
#54. Even very great things, he meant, can't last forever. Or beautiful things, I suppose. Those too. Things that don't really need replacing except because they fall apart.

Emma Richler

Meant Nothing Quotes #318607
#55. Love meant a lot, it meant everything, and it meant nothing.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

Meant Nothing Quotes #321097
#56. She protected me. We had the souls of each other. We loved in some realm where the natural and the preternatural meant nothing.

Anne Rice

Meant Nothing Quotes #325496
#57. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#58. Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

Bipasha Basu

Meant Nothing Quotes #337984
#59. Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

Lemony Snicket

Meant Nothing Quotes #346987
#60. If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

Robert Brooks

Meant Nothing Quotes #352410
#61. They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

Nicholas Sparks

Meant Nothing Quotes #364119
#62. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.

Karl Popper

Meant Nothing Quotes #369666
#63. Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Philip Pullman

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#64. Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Amy Hill Hearth

Meant Nothing Quotes #378293
#65. If you're honest all the time for ten years, but then tell one lie, those ten years have meant nothing. Your integrity is lost." "So,",

C.J. Petit

Meant Nothing Quotes #396325
#66. Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,

Harry Homewood

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#67. Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.

Mark Fuhrman

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#68. Dana was what Steve called a "silent partner" in the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency. Being a silent partner meant that Dana didn't carry a business card, that his name didn't appear on the company letterhead, and he wanted nothing to do with the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency.

Mac Barnett

Meant Nothing Quotes #425421
#69. At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Albert Speer

Meant Nothing Quotes #428398
#70. This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else - every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss - has meant nothing.

Lauren Oliver

Meant Nothing Quotes #441646
#71. Yeah, I cut class ... I got a D.
Cause History meant nothing to me
Except a definite nap.
That's why I always sat in the back.

Mike G

Meant Nothing Quotes #442159
#72. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

Allison Winn Scotch

Meant Nothing Quotes #445607
#73. What's the matter?" he asked
"nothing"
"what do you want me to do for you?"
"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"
what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.

Milan Kundera

Meant Nothing Quotes #448337
#74. The world is nothing but a school of love;
our relationships with our husband or wife,
with our children and parents,
with our friends and relatives
are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

Swami Muktananda

Meant Nothing Quotes #449999
#75. We were nothing special. We were never meant to last. We're friends, remember? Nothing more.

Sibylla Matilde

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#76. Nothing she did
or said
was quite
what she meant
but still her life
could be called a monument
shaped in a slant
of available light
and set to the movement
of possible music

Carol Shields

Meant Nothing Quotes #484558
#77. Judge spoke in a pained whisper. "I fucked up, Duke. I tossed him aside like he meant nothing. Now he wouldn't take me back if I begged." "You sure?" Duke exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Have you even tried?" Judge steepled his hands in front of him and listened to what Duke had to say.

A.E. Via

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#78. Sometimes,things end even before they get started..
Pretty clear, they were not meant to happen or begin..
Cut the disappointment and look it in the face..
Even if it hurts,force a smile and lock it away..
For all the truth, there is nothing you can say..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

Meant Nothing Quotes #489918
#79. Yes, she would go - to Rifthold, to anywhere, even through the Gates of the Wyrd and into Hell itself, if it meant freedom. After all, you aren't Adarlan's Assassin for nothing.

Sarah J. Maas

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#80. A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

Sarah

Meant Nothing Quotes #496136
#81. The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

Regina Doman

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#82. Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart.

L.J.Smith

Meant Nothing Quotes #502468
#83. There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him. It's apparently not really the done thing to be angry with your disabled charge. Especially

Jojo Moyes

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#84. His wings - she's never seen them fully spread, massive and strong. She wants to tell him that this is how he was meant to be - as wrong as it was for her to do this to him, as wrong as it feels, he is this person in this moment, and there's nothing more beautiful.

Julianna Baggott

Meant Nothing Quotes #508863
#85. Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

Karen Traviss

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#86. No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine

Liane Moriarty

Meant Nothing Quotes #512013
#87. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well

Ernest Hemingway,

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#88. Love had meant nothing to him but sawdust and cinders.

Virginia Woolf

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#89. I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.

Robert Goolrick

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#90. A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Gene Wolfe

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#91. He was big ... all over. The lioness in her purred, and she was disgusted with the animal. Looks were not everything. So what if he looked like a sex god? That meant nothing. Oh, it means a lot. A body like that, I can ride him like the stallion he is. Stupid cat. You

Milly Taiden

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#92. To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45

U.S. Government

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#93. When they let me out of disciplinary segregation this morning, I knew they were probably letting Gigi out too, which meant that my level of safety and comfort had shrunk to nothing.

Jessica N. Watkins

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#94. In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Vinoba Bhave

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#95. And that night meant nothing, Sean.

Elle Kennedy

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#96. But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.

Lesley Howarth

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#97. Although, nothing is really lost forever. When a thing is meant to be found, the right person will find it.

Melanie Harlow

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#98. The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

Sara Zarr

Meant Nothing Quotes #635638
#99. The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

Kim Novak

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#100. I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.

Anne Rice

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