Top 100 Never Meant Quotes
#1. Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.
Rebecca Serle
#4. I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.
Tom Courtenay
#5. One important point many fail to understand is that the Bible was never meant to replace God; rather, it was meant to lead us into the heart of God. Too many Christians stop with the text and never go on to experience the presence of God.
A.W. Tozer
#6. love was never meant to be
just a metaphor
between the pages of poetry.
Sanober Khan
#7. My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
Arianna Huffington
#8. The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father.
Pope John Paul II
#9. You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.
Abraham Verghese
#10. Religions were never meant to be followed but thought for. It turned nasty when was turned into human ego, blasted straight out of furnace of hatred for fellow being.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#11. I'm always apologizing. forever apologizing. for who i am and what i never meant to be and for this body i was born into, this DNA i never asked for, this person i can't unbecome.
Tahereh Mafi
#12. 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
#13. Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.
Robin Maxwell
#14. The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#15. Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren't to be destroyed.
Elise Kova
#16. Stories enabled you to forget your life and your limits. They urged you to reach for a world that was never meant to be yours. There was nothing more dangerous than an imagination.
Tiffany Truitt
#17. What if stepping off the path isn't a sign you've gone wrong? What if it's a sign you were never meant to take that road in the first place?
Rachel Spangler
#18. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
Don McLean
#19. All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.
Brandon Boyd
#20. A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
Barack Obama
#21. I never meant to lie to you." I do hear it in his voice. He means it. But lying isn't something you do by accident.
Jessica Love
#22. Don't let your tragedies fool you, they were never meant to alter your path; just re-pave your direction. Spend time nurturing the things that once tore you apart and you will find within you, your most empowering strength.
Nikki Rowe
#23. Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote
#24. I never meant to know her, but I've known her for so long. I never want to see her hurt, and I'm going to have to hurt her the worst.
Stylo Fantome
#25. People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
Karen Kingsbury
#26. Just honest. To me, being 'politically incorrect' means the opposite of being political
which means to spin everything. That's all it's ever meant to me. It's never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.
Bill Maher
#27. Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
Yasmin Mogahed
#28. Without God's power in your life, you are just running on your own energy. God never meant for you to do that. It's like having a laptop that's unplugged; the battery will eventually drain and shut down the computer. Why would you live like that when God created you for so much more?
Rick Warren
#29. I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
David Hare
#30. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.
Evinda Lepins
#31. Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
Alister E. McGrath
#32. Baby, if you love someone, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be yours. - Till We Meet Again
Yoana Dianika
#33. Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
Chris Cornell
#34. God didn't give us minds to be able to understand everything. That's part of the mystery. Now, you can drive yourself crazy tryin' to understand something you were never meant to figure out down here, or you can just trust Him 'til He's ready to let you in on it. 'Til then, just enjoy the mystery.
Renee Riva
#35. Always remember that the lessons you learn in life are never meant just for you. They are like all our gifts, they are meant to be used and shared, never horded and hidden.
John Patrick Hickey
#36. For me going out to party never meant drinking or taking drugs.
Pedro Winter
#37. I could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.
Azar Nafisi
#38. I'd been hurt, yes - but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself.
David Levithan
#39. That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, "I never meant to be a lawman. Stumbled into it, really. When I quit, it was a weight off." Dealing
Mary Doria Russell
#40. He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.
Anne Osterlund
#41. The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.
Charlie Huston
#42. 'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.
Markus Persson
#43. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
J.K. Rowling
#44. We were never meant to live life accumulating stuff. We were meant to live simply enjoying the experiences of life, the people of life, and the journey of life - not the things of life.
Joshua Becker
#45. Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite number of solar systems.
Matt Haig
#47. Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.
Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.
Martin Amis
#48. 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
#49. I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.
Diplo
#50. But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
Roy Moore
#51. Hope was never meant to be
A future shared alone,
As life cannot be won or lost
It was never ours to own.
Frederic M. Perrin
#52. Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you
Stephenie Meyer
#53. I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
Alice Oswald
#54. Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it's meant to be an encounter with a person.
Mike Donehey
#55. What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?
Marie Lu
#56. We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us." He meets my gaze. "No matter how it has wronged us.
Marie Lu
#57. And Green held him right back, whispering quietly, "It's okay. You're going to be okay now. I've got you. I never meant to hurt you. I swear. I didn't know. I promise you I didn't. I never would've gone out with her. Why didn't you just tell me? Damn you." Ruxs
A.E. Via
#58. Why, when it comes to Law, I have nothing to say" answered that personage. "for laws were never meant to be understood, and it is foolish to make the attempt.
L. Frank Baum
#59. Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
Drake
#60. A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect
W.E.B. Du Bois
#61. Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
Jean Charest
#62. Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#63. Say again, over," he announced.
"I was saying that I'm going from here on foot," Arkeley told them. "You can follow however you choose but this place was never meant for a military parade."
"He's making fun of your truck," Caxton told Captain Suzie.
David Wellington
#64. It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.
Katie Cotugno
#65. It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
Roy Moore
#66. Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.
Steven Redhead
#67. If you love someone, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be yours.
Yoana Dianika
#68. I was never meant to save a soul, and no one was purposed as a project. We were meant to be comrades, mutually passing around whatever we have to offer.
Shannan Martin
#69. I love you," he whispered. "I was never meant to love anyone else. No matter what. Ellie Watt, you own me. And I'll keep you safe.
Karina Halle
#70. Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.
Marie Jenney Howe
#71. Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
Barry Sanders
#72. People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.
Sue Grafton
#73. I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you."
"Then why were you carrying a gun?
Nalini Singh
#74. A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
Anita Shreve
#75. You, baby sister, keep trying to fit your body in a box it was never meant to be in.
Auden Johnson
#76. 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
#77. Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.
Mira Grant
#78. There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C.S. Lewis
#79. I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Kathleen Turner
#80. I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
Barbara Mertz
#81. The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch
#82. Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.
Michelle Paver
#83. Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
#84. For all our guessing and speculating, there were a few things we all agree on. Things we knew to be fact.
The drug was never meant to get out.
Ordinary people were never supposed to develop extraordinary powers.
Divines weren't supposed to take over the world.
But they did.
Violet Cross
#85. If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.
George Carlin
#87. Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.
Dennis Wheatley
#88. You should've run faster, Lexi. You should've stayed far away from the Dark. But most of all, you should never have fallen for your Dragon King. It'll only bring you misery and death. Humans and Kings were never meant to mix.
Donna Grant
#89. Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.
C.S. Lewis
#91. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.
Shirley Jackson
#92. What she'd done was give him a glimpse of something that scared the bejesus out of him, something never meant for men like him that could start a hunger that would eat away what little was left inside him that didn't need to be shoved into the dark place.
Ellen O'Connell
#93. It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in.
Anne Lamott
#94. We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing. Does that mean it was never meant to be in the first place? That we were an accident of fate? If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away like that?
Jenny Han
#95. [On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
Whoopi Goldberg
#96. 'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
Amy Bloom
#97. Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across the surface of the skin, colors that were never meant to be seen on earth.
Simon Kurt Unsworth
#98. 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
#99. No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
Boyd K. Packer
#100. Humans were never meant to be vegetarian, Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.
Michael Scott
