Top 100 Meant To Quotes
#1. Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple.
Tony Curl
#2. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.
Sherman Alexie
#3. Knowledge must be fixed in some way if it is to be preserved," said the sheikh. "That's why the Quran isn't meant to be altered. There were other prophets sent to other peoples, but because their books were altered, their knowledge was lost.
G. Willow Wilson
#4. I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
T. Harv Eker
#5. Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.
Allan Wolf
#6. Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters ... better deep than shallow!
Joseph Smith Jr.
#7. The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people aware of the depths of possibility in their hearts and lives; help them remove the barriers that keep them from being the people they were meant to be.
John O'Donohue
#8. Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.
Jeremy Carver
#9. Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
Alister E. McGrath
#10. I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
Rod Taylor
#11. When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
Benny Blanco
#12. I think it's meant to be thought provoking, said Cinder. Iko frowned, looking unprovoked. They
Marissa Meyer
#13. America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.
Bryant McGill
#14. I am no longer afraid to face what is meant to be, but I am not so sure of what exactly I want for the future either.
Ramona Matta
#15. They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say ... "
Bill Hicks
#16. My hands were made to touch you
My lips were made to love you
My eyes were meant to see you
My tongue was made to taste you.
Katy Evans
#17. Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ...
Janette Oke
#18. To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.
Trent Reznor
#19. We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#20. When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.
Lorrie Moore
#21. I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
Myrna Loy
#22. Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.
Brian Tracy
#24. Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people.
Ari Shapiro
#25. Miss you so much it hurts.
Seconds later, she texts back, The feeling is mushrooms,followed by a second text reading, Yes, autocorrect, I meant to say mushrooms, not mutual. Good catch.
Life without you does feel a little bit like fungus, I reply. But definitely less tasty.
Emily Henry
#26. It's because the best things in life are never easy. And the more you fight for something, the more you know that it was meant to be.
Christine Brae
#27. It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
Emily Matchar
#28. I've come to realize that if me gets his way, I'll miss out on the real life I'm meant to live. The life in which I love others and make a difference in the world.
Kyle Idleman
#29. Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth.
Marc Goodman
#30. When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
Robert Carlyle
#31. The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne
#32. You, baby sister, keep trying to fit your body in a box it was never meant to be in.
Auden Johnson
#33. It seems no matter how long we live, we never seem to know what we're meant to be doing.
Jacinta Maree
#34. When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt
#35. Let me guess," Cassidy said, "because someone else picked it out and put it up in a room meant to encapsulate who you are, even though you have no interest in boats." "If I say yes, do I get to kiss you?
Robyn Schneider
#36. You aren't meant to be a prisoner. You're powerful and incredible."
"You've no' seen me in dragon form."
"I don't have to. I see the man before me now.
Donna Grant
#37. He hadn't found what he'd meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now.
Cherie Priest
#38. If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.
DJ Qualls
#39. Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#40. We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.
Gina Lake
#41. Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is meant to be a poet or something else entirely.
Lan Samantha Chang
#42. Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.
James Cameron
#43. Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.
Not to get to know one another,
not to get close enough to damage the heart
made older by each new encounter.
Rod McKuen
#44. But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank.
'Life makes its own corrections.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#45. Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.
Seanan McGuire
#46. Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
Maajid Nawaz
#47. I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.
Rachel Uchitel
#48. It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.
Madeleine Roux
#49. Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Eartha Kitt
#50. It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be.
Mandy Hale
#51. Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
#52. I'll grow. I'll learn. That's what I'm meant to do. Anything else that happens is a gift.
Martin Hengst
#53. The bright red sap of the fei plant is meant to be useful for blood ailments." "The signature of all things," Alma murmured.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#54. When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
Sara Gruen
#55. Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Roy Bennett
#56. Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.
J. Sterling
#57. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Douglas Coupland
#58. In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando
#59. We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.
Richard Dahlstrom
#60. Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Paul Coelho
#61. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Maybe love isn't meant to be bliss never-ending.
Maybe love is unwavering support and befriending.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.
Michelle Visage
#64. When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.
Lily Collins
#65. Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone!
Satoru Iwata
#67. Spiritual dreams are meant to comfort us during difficult times, show us how much we have grown, and encourage us to go to a higher level.
Pamela Cummins
#68. My happiness is nothing to him," she said. "Only his books! He has made me like a book. I am not meant to be taken, and touched, and liked. I am meant to keep here, in dim light, forever!
Sarah Waters
#69. Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.
Stephen Levine
#70. No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
Mark Strand
#71. Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.
John Zorn
#72. Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
#73. The people meant to be in your life will look inside, not just stare at the pretty bow on the box.
Shannon L. Alder
#74. Dreams are meant to become reality. Don't ever think you can't do something just because it's difficult.
Melody Anne
#75. People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."
...
"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.
Jimmy Buffett
#76. The tongues of God's people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, we need to pursue it regularly and cooperate with God to receive it.
Beth Moore
#77. Hatever happens in life helps make us who we're meant to be and leads us to people we're meant to meet
R.D. Cole
#78. The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
Stanley Hauerwas
#79. It was a kiss meant to set her ablaze. And as always, it worked.
Donna Grant
#80. I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.
Mike Redmond
#81. It was as if all the melancholy I'd ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our place in the world- finally a good place- and the spirit of that rightness was meant to echo on until the end of time.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#83. Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
Markus Zusak
#84. Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts.
Niki Tsongas
#85. I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
Soseki Natsume
#86. Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#87. In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
Ben Marcus
#88. People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.
Neko Case
#89. Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?
Laura Ruby
#90. The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
Franz Kafka
#91. Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy
#92. Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?
Louise Penny
#93. I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?
Ted Danson
#95. People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.
S.H. Kolee
#96. It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
Joan Didion
#97. The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
#98. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
Joyce Meyer
#99. I think all of this - The Roots and DJing included - was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.
Questlove
#100. Your husband had something he meant to pass on to you," Zahara said. "I just wanted to make sure that you got it." Reaching into her pocket, she handed the woman a single tattered sheet of flimsi.
Joe Schreiber
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