Top 100 Quotes About Never Meant To Be
#1. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#3. The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
Matthew West
#4. Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared.
Forrest Curran
#5. Dear girl with the red scarf,
Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.
Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#6. Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#7. I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
L.A. Meyer
#8. You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason - quirky but beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Your sexuality was never meant to be separate from your deepest spiritual and relational longings but to be an expression of them.
Juli Slattery
#10. I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
Lynda Carter
#11. Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.
'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.
'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Madeleine L'Engle
#12. People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
George Steinbrenner
#13. Maybe faith was never meant to be some perfectly plotted, passion-driven paperback. Maybe faith is the long story of a happy marriage -- an average life made fuller, not smaller, by the pockets of silence and darkness that break into it.
Addie Zierman
#14. The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.
Jacob Peterson
#15. Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
Issa Rae
#16. My stories aren't for everyone - they were never meant to be - but
Kevin J. Anderson
#17. Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
Aaron Copland
#18. Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burnt, some roads are never meant to be traveled again.
Steve Maraboli
#19. I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her like the jewelled movements of a timepiece, fine works of art never meant to be seen.
Isaac Marion
#20. Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.
Kevin Brooks
#21. The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.
Joe Carnahan
#22. We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity.
John Patrick Hickey
#23. I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.
Nikki Rowe
#24. Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
Fay Weldon
#26. We were never meant to be baby, we just happened
Keri Hilson
#27. Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. - Stuart Wilde
Dan Millman
#29. I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As
Patrick DeWitt
#30. I refuse to believe this was my fate. I was not meant to be this. I was never meant to be ... " The pain in his eyes tore through her. "This can't be all I was born for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Work, it seems, was never meant to be something we do just to make a living. It was meant to be a means of making a difference - in our own lives and in the lives of others.
Jeff Goins
#32. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
Sidney Sheldon
#33. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
Caroline Myss
#35. The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
Billy Corgan
#36. If you fall in love with someone else, the other person you still love was never meant to be yours forever.
Vi Keeland
#37. We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.
Paul David Tripp
#38. 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
#39. Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Susan Estrich
#40. Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.
Bill Johnson
#41. There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.
Clark Ashton Smith
#42. I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. I worry that we all just sat around, after a while, trying to enjoy a ride that was never meant to be fun.
Chris Adrian
#45. Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.
Richard Paul Evans
#46. Submission was never meant to be a negative action. Submission is an act of love and service because someone must lead, and the others must follow. Your greatest act of love to your mate is when you submit and that comes in many forms.
Quinn Loftis
#47. Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like.
Steven Redhead
#48. The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.
Madeleine L'Engle
#49. The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
Chester Himes
#50. we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
Charles Bukowski
#51. The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.
Jan Tschichold
#52. love was never meant to be
just a metaphor
between the pages of poetry.
Sanober Khan
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren't to be destroyed.
Elise Kova
#57. 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
#58. All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.
Brandon Boyd
#59. A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
Barack Obama
#60. People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
Karen Kingsbury
#61. It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.
Evinda Lepins
#62. Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
Alister E. McGrath
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it's meant to be an encounter with a person.
Mike Donehey
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in.
Anne Lamott
#76. 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
#77. '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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
Ralph Nader
#82. Humans were never meant to be vegetarian, Hel bubbled, her face and fangs black with fluids.
Michael Scott
#83. Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!
Fred Van Lente
#84. Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
Shane Claiborne
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.
Mira Grant
#89. 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
#90. You, baby sister, keep trying to fit your body in a box it was never meant to be in.
Auden Johnson
#91. 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
#92. Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.
Steven Redhead
#93. Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Dirk Benedict
#94. If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
#95. I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.
Tony Blackburn
#96. What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
Calvin Coolidge
#97. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
Fiona Mountain
#98. We will never be more than we are meant to be!
Sorin Cerin
#99. I've never woken to another's body in the same bed, not since I was a child. There is something about it that makes waking up alone seem unnatural. Man is not meant to be alone, yet men like us (or maybe men like me) appear to be lonelier than others.
Aleksandr Voinov
#100. You never meant me to be the guy you'd settle down with. Not the safe guy you'd love, but the dangerous one who makes your pulse race.
Renee Rose
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