Some Things Weren't Meant To Be Quotes

#1. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Lisa Brooks

#2. There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

Neil Tennant

#3. Do not try to be pretty. You weren't 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.""
- Things I Wish My Mother Had Taught Me

Suzanne Rivard

#4. All posthuman meant, literally speaking, was what you were when you weren't human anymore.

James S.A. Corey

#5. Love pushes boundaries and crosses every line you weren't meant to cross.

Auliq Ice

#6. If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside?

Scott Westerfeld

#7. Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.

Alice Hoffman

#8. Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them.

Hiromu Arakawa

#9. Joe's presence was a comfort but also a nagging reminder of what it meant to be accountable to someone else, how easy it was to lose myself if people weren't ever-present. He was to me what I needed from a man who wanted nothing from me.

Melissa Grunow

#10. Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

Mikko Hypponen

#11. We weren't meant to be somebody
we were meant to know Somebody

John Piper

#12. When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together.

Tracy McMillan

#13. You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

Stacey T. Hunt

#14. Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!

Shannon L. Alder

#15. She didn't need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren't necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn't control them like she once thought.

Holly Hood

#16. How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?

Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

Micalea Smeltzer

#17. We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

David Levithan

#18. A person couldn't make something last if it wasn't meant to, like a person couldn't be someone they weren't. And trying only prolonged the inevitable.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#19. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#20. They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. Some things weren't meant to live in cages.

Susanna Kearsley

#22. My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Lorde

#23. Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.

Sonya Hartnett

#24. He took up my hand and looked me straight in the eyes. "You weren't meant to hear it because it wasn't true." "It . . . wasn't?" "No. You see, Franklin has always taken from me everything I ever wanted. And this time, I determined that he would not take you.

Siri Mitchell

#25. We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

Nora Ephron

#26. If it weren't for the fact that he'd been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he's now enrolled at his version of Hogwarts.

Andrea Cremer

#27. The pictures are bound to mutilate the words. Those words weren't meant to have pictures with them!

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?

Leslye Walton

#29. These weren't her folk, but ... they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone's, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart.

Laini Taylor

#30. How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

Jodi Picoult

#31. The kiss was meaningful. The kisses I had shared with Jayden weren't meaningful. They were full of lies. His kisses made me felt like we weren't meant to be together, but when I kissed Sean it was like we were supposed to be together.

Jessica Madden

#32. Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Cornelia Funke