Top 100 Meant To Quotes
#2. Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
George Vecsey
#3. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
Timothy Keller
#4. I did love 'Dirty Sexy Money' quite a lot. I loved my tenure at 'Scrubs' quite a lot. 'ER' might have been my favorite guest star thing. 'We Were Soldiers' meant a lot to me.
Bellamy Young
#5. Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
James Paul Gee
#6. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#7. As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. I wasn't saying you were heartbroken." I sound like English is a new language for me, the way I stutter out the words. "I just meant it was hard for me to ... to watch."
He neither confirms nor denies that he might or might not have been even a teeny bit heartbroken.
Susan Ee
#9. The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.
Michael R. Fletcher
#10. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
Anna Julia Cooper
#11. We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.
Pope Benedict XVI
#12. this book itself is not a book on what people at the top do or should do. It is addressed to everyone who, as a knowledge worker, is responsible for actions and decisions which are meant to contribute to the performance capacity of his organization.
Peter F. Drucker
#13. Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
Ann Beattie
#14. I had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away
Jodi Picoult
#16. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Anne Lamott
#17. Touch me and tell me you don't believe we're meant to be together. Tell me you aren't mine."
~Ethan
Rosalie Lario
#18. Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai
Gosho Aoyama
#19. I hadn't been left on the doorstep of an orphanage or church. I wasn't abandoned in some frilly basket by a tearful mother. Even that was too romantic of a story for me. I was left in a trashcan. Meant to die, I figured.
R.K. Lilley
#20. The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
Oprah Winfrey
#21. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled.
Carrie Vaughn
#22. 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg
#23. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.
Anna Jarzab
#24. The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.
Lisa Kessler
#25. I don't think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger.
Bob Goff
#26. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.
Don DeLillo
#27. Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.
Nicholas Sparks
#28. She draws her sister's blood with a pair of silver shears. What was meant to simply trim her hair has instead shorn off an ear.
Kendare Blake
#29. Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.
Richard Adams
#30. He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk
why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.
Henry Blake Fuller
#31. Oh boy, when you're with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.
Buddy Holly
#32. In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.
N. T. Wright
#33. I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.
Deb Caletti
#35. Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
Carol P. Christ
#36. are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be,
Marianne Williamson
#37. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where "traditional values" meant "hang someone." He did not have a problem with this, broadly speaking, but it never hurt to understand your employer.
Terry Pratchett
#38. 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
#39. It's just that ... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
Sarah Dessen
#40. The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.
Marc Marcel
#41. My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
Lynn Coady
#42. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
May Sarton
#43. Roan rubbed his eyes, restraining the urge to ask if "light domination" meant he liked having his dates order for him in restaurants.
Andrea Speed
#44. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.
Evette Davis
#45. The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
David Lloyd-Jones
#46. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#47. Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.
Kevin Hancock
#48. I jerked away from her, almost falling. "No!" I meant to shout but it came out as a weak croak, "Don't touch me." My voice was shaking, though I couldn't tell if I was angry or afraid.
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
Catherine Lacey
#50. Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.
E. M. Forster
#51. 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
#52. I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
Emraan Hashmi
#53. I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.
Terri Blackstock
#54. Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
Yeardley Smith
#55. Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to run on good food: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and lots of water. Eat good food!
Tom Giaquinto
#56. Hey, Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that.
Jojo Moyes
#57. Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.
Andre Agassi
#58. A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!
Catherine Booth
#59. 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
#60. American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.
Sherrod Brown
#61. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
#62. For years, I'd never understood what it meant when people said they felt like laughing and crying at the same time, until now. (...) I was waking up every morning - reaching for her, rolling over in bed at night to pull her closer, but she was never there.
Whitney G.
#63. So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.
Matt Haig
#64. If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
Mark Twain
#65. This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn't understand what they meant for a long, long time.
Adam Johnson
#66. 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
#67. Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?
John Calvin
#68. If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla
#69. ... 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
#70. Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.
Bill Bryson
#71. I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.
Teresita Sy-Coson
#72. We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.
Venus Williams
#74. Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
Liu Xiang
#75. She knew what it meant to want to return to safety and seed-husk again. But you cannot get back into your seed-husk, once it is cracked open and no longer yours.
Katherine Catmull
#76. Mum was thinking 'bout going back to study creative twatting writing. She had a novel in her, whatever the fuck that meant. She was going to do all the stuff that having me when she was twenty had stopped her from doing. She said I'd made her tits little and taken away her identity.
Caroline Smailes
#77. I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
John Legend
#78. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#79. Don't give up, Chuck. We're gonna solve this thing, get out of here. I'm a Runner now - I promise on my life I'll get you back to that room of yours. Make your mom quit crying. And Thomas meant it. He felt it burn in his heart.
James Dashner
#80. You don't have to be who you are, if you don't like it. No matter what, you can be who you were meant to be.
Daniel Vlcek
#81. If you are upset with another's words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul
Jeremy Aldana
#82. I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
Elizabeth Peters
#83. The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
Matthew West
#84. If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
Wally Lamb
#85. 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
#86. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Michael Monroe
#87. I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.
David Ogilvy
#88. He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford
#89. Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone.
Eileen Wilks
#90. Then he sat down at the table of a larger man, a man with tattoos but the old kind, before tattoos became dainty and about spiritual life. The man wore tattoos from the time when tattoos meant you liked to kick people around.
Aimee Bender
#91. There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
Gail Collins
#92. I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
Donald Miller
#93. There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.
Theresa Smith
#94. Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
Wilfred Owen
#95. You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.
Simon Van Booy
#96. Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me.
Pat Conroy
#97. Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
J.K. Rowling
#98. You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
Hank Azaria
#99. Then he said, "Always follow your first instinct about a person, baby girl, and you won't go wrong." At first I didn't understand what he meant. So I asked him. He just told to me to be careful of whom I trust. Make sure that the people you keep close to you are worthy of the trust you give them.
Sha Cole
#100. Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.
Mark Spitz
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