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. She loved one of them most of all.
And this one loved her back. He loved her back so hard that even the things that weren't special about her became special: the way she tapped her pencil on her teeth, the off-key songs she sang in the shower, how when she kissed him he knew it meant forever.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Stacey T. Hunt

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

Shannon L. Alder

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Sarah Dessen

#9. But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Charles Bukowski

#10. We weren't meant to be loved in parts, but as a whole.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

Tommy Lee

#12. Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren't to be destroyed.

Elise Kova

#13. We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

Gloria Steinem

#14. Thank you," she said. "That wasn't meant as a compliment," he said. "I was criticizing you." "That made the compliment all the more sincere," Lauren said. "You weren't trying to make one.

Claire LaZebnik

#15. 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

#16. The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

Jack Nicklaus

#17. I sincerely want to meet the girl that was meant for me, but I want to sleep with the girls that weren't.

Adam Ferrara

#18. You don't really want to see the movie, do you?"
"I was enjoying it."
"You weren't paying any attention."
"That doesn't meant I wasn't enjoying myself. It's a comedy, right?"
"Sort of," he said. "The daughter gets cancer and dies.

Marshall Thornton

#19. I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

H.M. Ward

#20. There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.

Sara Gruen

#21. 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

#22. I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.

Jared Leto

#23. There were eleven of us.
Each more different than the next.
All with the same mindset.
Things weren't the way they were meant to be.
It was our job to make things right.
We were the soldiers of Halla.
It was time for us to take it back.

D.J. MacHale

#24. Things that were never together weren't meant to be fixed.

Lisa De Jong

#25. 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

#26. Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

Julie Schumacher

#27. People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.

Neko Case

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Leslye Walton

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Susanna Kearsley

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

John Piper

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

James S.A. Corey

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

Auliq Ice

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Hiromu Arakawa

#51. 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

#52. 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