Top 100 Quotes About Meant
#2. The world seemed to go red. He wanted to scream his outrage, to charge at Skarn and tear the murdering bastard's face off with his bare teeth. But he knew that meant certain death. No, he had to be ice. Not fire, but ice.
Luke Scull
#3. Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#4. I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
Miranda July
#5. My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
Anita Roddick
#6. There is a view," he said. "You will admire it." A command. All wrong. He meant for her to hear that he wanted her to see the view, but no. By habit, he demanded that she accompany him. "I should like for you to see it. Please.
Carolyn Jewel
#7. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#8. Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.
Peter Enns
#9. A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work ...
Dalai Lama
#10. Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?
Linda Crew
#12. Phil Needle supposed what he meant was that he wanted to be God, just long enough to find his daughter. It was not a prayer but a promotion. This was why nobody liked God: they wanted his job.
Daniel Handler
#13. 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
#14. There were always risks in life. Life was meant to be lived like that because if it wasn't, then what was the purpose of living it at all? Measuring
Terry Brooks
#15. We're meant to be part of a we. Something bigger, something outside of ourselves.
Meg Haston
#16. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
#17. Blake inspires instant, tender Blakelust in everyone he meets. All of his beauties are meant to be touched, and he likes to be touched.
John Valentine
#18. You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.
Keke Palmer
#19. Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way.
Avijeet Das
#20. Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
H.G.Wells
#21. Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.
J.R. Ward
#22. Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away.
Olive Ann Burns
#23. There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games.
Ralph McInerny
#24. Just because we love each other doesn't mean that we're meant to be together, right?
Tina Martin
#25. To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
John Glenn
#26. I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
Will Rogers
#27. She was sated and relaxed, which was quickly becoming his favourite look on her. Her sleep y smile wasn't meant to charm or soothe him. It wasn't a mask. This was Lex, stripped of all that bullshit she'd learned in Two. Not trying to be anyone's fantasy.
It made her his.
Kit Rocha
#28. Your aim is a little off. I think you meant to get me several inches to the right.
Jus Accardo
#29. Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it
Mary Rowlandson
#30. Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.
Steven Redhead
#31. My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Gillian Flynn
#32. How's the book coming?" Stay and talk to me. That's what I meant.
"It's coming. Still got a lot of work to do." He couldn't. That's what he meant.
Kami Garcia
#33. Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little, even if one did once know what one meant.
Elizabeth Bowen
#34. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.
Henry Cloud
#35. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.
Tiffany Madison
#36. Digital books, like television and other media, are best meant for those Pandoras who've already opened their boxes and know what demons to expect inside.
Jason Merkoski
#37. By the fifth 'I'm sorry' for the same cause, it's better to just say, I meant to do it.
Anthony Liccione
#38. I need to know who I was, in order to go forward and be who I am meant to be.
Kay Bratt
#39. Games, All Games are meant to be Fun and when it stops being Fun it stops being a Game.
Brian L. Swartz
#40. 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
#41. There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.
Tracy Chevalier
#42. She's all the blood I've ever shed. She's every time I've ever thought of death. She's every time I've ever looked at happiness and thought, 'That's not meant for me.
Elijah Noble El
#44. In his life, after all, he had achieved nothing, had been totally unproductive. He couldn't make anyone else happy, and, of course, couldn't make himself happy. Happiness? He wasn't even sure what that meant.
Haruki Murakami
#45. I don't belong to anyone. I make my own choices."
"And you're with Adrian," said Dimitri.
"But I was meant for you.
Richelle Mead
#46. So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
Thom Mayne
#47. It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.
Katie Cotugno
#48. If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
Mark Twain
#49. I say again, you must feel you are freed. It's not right for you to go on as you are. It's not like you. You're a different person. Don't answer. It's not meant to be answered. But it's like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation.
Tarjei Vesaas
#50. Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.
Bill Johnson
#51. If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
Jan Koum
#52. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.
Rebecca Taylor
#53. It was like I was being punished for being gay, and back then I didn't even know what it meant to be gay. I never dreamed of dating another guy, or about having sex with one. I was seven. I didn't even know about sex yet.
John Green
#54. Maybe that's what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.
Meera Syal
#55. And God is meant to be the home of our souls. Christ came into the world to bring us back to God, and unless we take Christ for what God intended we should, our religion will always be a divided one.
Andrew Murray
#56. 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
#57. The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
Andy Goldsworthy
#58. Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.
Oprah Winfrey
#59. Jesus, as the one perfect person who fully embodied what it meant to be human and is the new Adam, is the definition of what it means to be a man. Everything else is false.
Nate Pyle
#60. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
Zoey Dean
#61. Lee had made it pretty clear that I meant something to him and this was the cause of the joy that I couldn't quite tamp down. He didn't like me thinking I was a quick fuck. He didn't like me crying. He didn't like me trembling. And he really didn't like it when Terrible Teddy punched me in the face.
Kristen Ashley
#62. In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.
Thomas Frank
#63. 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
#64. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
#65. Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in the chancel.
Ken Follett
#66. When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
Imogen Heap
#67. The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
Emma McLaughlin
#68. I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
Alan Greenspan
#69. A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.
John Burnside
#70. While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
Russell Crowe
#71. These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace.
Marilynne Robinson
#72. Not all friendships are meant to last, I suppose. Not ever with books
Erin Wunker
#73. I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#75. What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.
John Irving
#76. Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.
Richard Bach
#77. You will know the person who was meant to be in your life by how they make you feel spiritually. If they live in such a way that inspires you to become better then you have found someone you can evolve with vs. raise.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. We are dealt the hand we're meant to have ,and we're forced to deal with it
Bec Botefuhr
#79. Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb
Valerie Plame
#80. Don't you know me by now, Angel? I never do what I'm meant for.
Brad Meltzer
#81. I remember when my daughter was just learning her letters. She was playing in her room and came downstairs to ask me, "Momma, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?" "China," I told her (she knew what the word meant - she had friends from there). "So," she asked next, "why is it written on everything?
Annie Leonard
#82. I am sorry for your loss." "I had a new hand made, of gold." He showed her. "Very nice. Will they make you a gold father too?" Lady Genna's voice was sharp. "Tywin was the loss I meant.
George R R Martin
#83. 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
#84. Hey," Anaxantis protested. "Oh," he added, when the Muktar prince took his member in his mouth. "Oh ... that's what you meant by servicing." He laughed softly.
"Aw, aw, teeth, teeth, no teeth," he hissed suddenly.
"Sowwy," Timishi, mumbled with his mouth full. "Towd you it wouldn't je jood.
Andrew Ashling
#85. The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexey Leonov
#86. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Elie Wiesel
#87. Famine, plague, death and war ... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.
Philip Jenkins
#88. One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
Elyn Saks
#89. Rules are meant to protect us, so I follow them. Something might feel good at the moment, but the consequences are scary.
Wendy Higgins
#90. Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She'd get that look on her face that I knew meant she missed my father. Not enough to want him back. She missed him just enough for it to hurt. On
Sherman Alexie
#91. It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.
Bruce Vilanch
#92. Indeed, if the Framers intended unenumerated rights to be protected without a bill of rights, how can we imagine that those rights were meant to be any less secure with a bill of rights.
Roger Pilon
#93. But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered. I didn't want to die. Even if it meant becoming something I loathed, my nature was, first and always, to survive.
Julie Kagawa
#94. I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder.
Said he to me, "God forgive me. Her Name - I never knew her Name."
Which meant not a Jot to me - and yet my Heart was the Thing that broke.
M T Anderson
#95. I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness.
David Foster Wallace
#96. I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.
Stephenie Meyer
#97. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth
#98. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?
Hanya Yanagihara
#99. From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
Louise Gluck
#100. I've seen Emily's scars, and that's more than you can say.
Fairfield shrunk back from the anger in Anjan's voice. "I meant well," he whispered.
Anjan leaned forward across the desk until he was an inch from the other man. "Mean better.
Courtney Milan
