Top 100 Not Meant Quotes
#1. The challenges we face in life are not meant to be some sort of punishment; rather, they are an invitation to change - and an opportunity to create something even better than before.
Sam Cawthorn
#2. The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.
Tom Carter
#3. It is true that no one can save you, no one but yourself. And sometimes ... even you cannot save you, no matter how much you wish it was untrue. Sadly, some things are not meant to be saved.
Lindy Zart
#5. Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
Rani Mukerji
#6. Do not try to be pretty. You were not meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just 'pretty'.
Anonymous
#7. Ha!" he thought. "That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrible knowledge. I do not. Should I tell someone? The Duke? He will not thank me for it.
Susanna Clarke
#8. Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.
Mike Tyson
#9. My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
Max Ernst
#11. My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.
-Alina Chase
Megan Miranda
#12. The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!
Sharon Gannon
#13. We're not meant to be alone. We're made with holes inside our souls. The only way to survive is to fill them.
Ella James
#14. I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
Carson McCullers
#15. We, as human beings, were not meant to be defeated
Anonymous
#16. An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz
#17. A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.
Roger Verge
#18. The fact that salt is a powerful emetic as well as a potent laxative should convince the most skeptical that it is not meant to form an important part of the human diet.
John H. Tobe
#19. We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#20. The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#21. We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Jane Fonda
#22. Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
G. Stanley Hall
#23. We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.
Naomi Novik
#24. If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
Oswald Chambers
#25. The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
Ilana Mercer
#26. Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
Mario Cuomo
#27. A rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.
Mark Haddon
#28. I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever.
Christina Rasmussen
#29. I'm pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we're not meant to see.
Karina Halle
#30. Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.
Mark Hamill
#31. Some things are not meant to be kept forever ... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy ... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything ... '
Noemie Lenoir
#32. People are not meant to be alone, as the word itself is made of two syllables.
Kimberlee Colon
#33. Sometimes, it seemed, were not meant for everyone.
Roy DSilva
#34. Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.
Eddie Murphy
#35. Some of us are not meant for greatness. We are meant for something greater.
Val Edward Simone
#36. The trombone is not meant for romance ... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.
David Crowe
#37. Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.
Edwidge Danticat
#38. Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.
John D. Caputo
#40. Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.
Matt Chandler
#41. We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Elisabeth Elliot
#42. You make tears look exquisite, but they're not meant for you.
Calia Read
#43. Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in - but only to be moved out from.
Richard Rohr
#44. If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.
Jessica Alba
#47. Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#48. I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.
Tupac Shakur
#49. We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.
Courtney M. Privett
#50. Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met.
Christina Farley
#51. 'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
Michael Palin
#52. I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.
Christian Bale
#53. Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.
Laura Zigman
#54. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.
Emery Lord
#55. To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.
James Hollis
#56. Monsters were supposed to be scary and ugly. They weren't supposed to hide behind friendly smiles and well-trimmed hair. Goodness, twisted as it might be, was not meant to be locked away in an icy heart and anxious exterior.
Kerri Maniscalco
#57. For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
Dweezil Zappa
#59. My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.
Chris Van Allsburg
#60. Some areas of life are not meant to overlap.
Lloyd Jones
#61. He looked at his watch and knew he had to get going. He wished he could spend forever staring at her, but he was not meant to have that much happiness; he never thought he deserved it. Not after spending centuries as he did.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#62. Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
Andrew Cohen
#63. Now the uncle spoke up. 'This cannot be,' he said. 'The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them.' ... Mrs. Ramani leaned into me, and said, as a statement of fact. 'We are not meant to go through this life alone.
Liz Tuccillo
#64. I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.
A.G.
#66. Mankind was not meant to suffer
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
David Lynch
#67. Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.
Dan Brown
#68. When it's not meant to make you up, it's meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say "no".
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
Diana Vreeland
#71. Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.
Donald Fairbairn
#72. This moment, this one position in time, was the happiest I will ever be as long as I am living. I have since felt it was too happy, that men are not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction; certainly it has tempered every moment of happiness I have experienced since.
Patrick DeWitt
#73. Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Julia Cameron
#74. Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.
John Maus
#75. There is already enough wars in this world. Love was not meant to be one of them, Save the ammunition.
Cody Solomon
#76. A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.
Joseph Sobran
#77. Life is not meant to be an open-book test.
Alyson Noel
#78. I'm a Miami girl. I'm not meant to be in anything under eighty degrees, ever. Shut
Hannah Moskowitz
#79. If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#80. The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.
Lewis Thomas
#82. The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#83. Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his ears, learned a good deal both about himself and about his dead parents. Philip's father had been much younger than the Vicar of Blackstable. After
William Somerset Maugham
#84. Anything we create ourselves is not meant to carry the weight of our strongest desires and dreams. Anything we put our hope in, short of the Creator himself, will either crumble or fall short of the joy that God intended for us to have in him.
David Boudia
#85. Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.
David Wilkerson
#86. 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
#87. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#88. The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.
George MacDonald
#90. The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#91. There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream.
Maya Angelou
#92. I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Mike Tyson
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
John F. Kennedy
#98. Some things don't need to be mended.
Some things are not meant to be mended. Some things are not for you to mend.
Merrie Haskell
#99. If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.
Cyril Connolly
#100. Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
Danielle Steel
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