Never Meant Anything To You Quotes

#1. If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.

Kiese Laymon

#2. You're my bird," I tell him. "You're my bird and you're going to help me fly away.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be.
Something new had been born.

Mark Peter Hughes

#4. I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. 'I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon,' I told him ... 'because it was so beautiful and I knew I'd never see it again.

Jeanne Safer

#5. I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.

Jim Palmer

#6. When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#7. He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.

Crystal Woods

#8. I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

Tom Courtenay

#9. Don't say the words I wanted to hear from Ren.

Ai Yazawa

#10. Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Jessica Lange

#11. I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it.

Linda Kozlowski

#12. Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

Craig Groeschel

#13. I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. Why should the wild child
weep for the scientists
why

Adrienne Rich

#15. I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#16. I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me ... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

Keith Jarrett

#17. Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

Rick Riordan

#18. We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

Anthony Horowitz

#19. Your light burns so bright. I never had a chance. Your fire enchants me, and I'd do anything to be near this fire, even if it meant death.

K. Webster

#20. You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful

James Terzian

#21. Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

#23. When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

#24. They are filled with earnest nonsense, the sort of things that a boy writes to his sweetheart, but which somehow, when they are meant for you, never feel tired or cliched or anything other than absolutely tender and true.

Natasha Solomons

#25. In the center of God's will, we find the greatest peace, fulfillment, and joy.

April Cassidy

#26. If there was one thing we shared, thanks to our upbringing in an ATI-aware household, it was the knowledge that the sudden smell of mysterious baked goods never meant anything good for anybody.

Seanan McGuire

#27. I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

Matt Taibbi

#28. I knew that Jessie and I were going to be okay; I knew we were all going to be okay. And I had faith that wherever our individual paths led us would be exactly where we were always meant to be. For a girl that had never believed in anything, this realization meant everything.

Rose Fall

#29. In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

John Ruskin

#30. A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Jerry Saltz

#31. If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Joe Vitale

#32. Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Marshall McLuhan

#34. The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.

Joe Carnahan

#35. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

Joe Abercrombie

#36. You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.

Aleksandra Layland

#37. I love you, Kaden. Against my better judgement and sense, I love you and I'm making the conscious decision to keep loving you until the day I die.

Lydia Kelly

#38. Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.

Lev Grossman

#39. Living it up to me meant getting drunk ... ; it meant losing myself in anything that could take the past away. I wanted to be numb; I wanted to never feel again. After all that had happened in the last couple years, I just wanted a way to forget it all.

Holly Hood

#40. Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

Donald O'Connor

#41. Youre not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

Chris Colfer

#42. Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Arne Glimcher