Meant To Be Quotes - Page 17

• Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.

  Leon Brown

  Heart, Light, Fire

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• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Men, America

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

  Claudia Rankine

  Communication, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Doors, Legends

  "Legends Of Tomorrow: Wentworth Miller On Whether Captain Cold Is A Hero". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ign.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Girl, Moments, Vulnerable

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Broken, Cheerleader

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher" - she didn't mean at Columbia, she meant in the spiritual sense - I decided my affliction was the universe telling me that it was time to stop writing fiction and become the spiritual guru I was clearly meant to be.

  Heidi Julavits

  Spiritual, Teacher, Pain

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Blood, Goal, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Know that all the limiting beliefs from your family, your friends, your fears and the world will begin to come up once you start to take action. Move through them. This part of the process is where we begin to grow as individuals into who we were meant to be by challenging all of these limiting beliefs and fears.

  Mastin Kipp

  Moving, Challenges, World

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• Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Character, Mean, Men

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• We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

  Meister Eckhart

  Mother, Born

  "Christianity". Book by Joe Jenkins, 1995.

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• And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be.

  D. J. MacHale

  Adventure, Challenges, Way

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.2451, Simon and Schuster

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• Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Drinking, Hobbies

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.152, Penguin

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• You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Kids

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• I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

  Melissa Marr

  Dream, Queens, Matter

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Fragile Eternity”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Thinking, Boston, Cry

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you that I love you? Or that the days I've spent with you have been the happiest in my life? Or that in the short time I've known you, I've come to believe that we were meant to be together? I could say all those things and all would be true, but as I reread them, all I can think is that I wish I were with you now, holding your hand and watching your elusive smile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

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• Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

  Alyson Noel

  Book, Tests, Life Is

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

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• The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Way

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.93, Penguin

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• He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…” “And this is exactly what I mean.” “Our love is written in the stars.” “And there you go again.” “I love you.” “You bore me.

  Derek Landy

  Stars, Love You, Mean

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• I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Hate, Trying

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.203, Random House

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• I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

  Pat Conroy

  Home, Mean, Arriving

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.562, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Kindness, People, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.37, Penguin

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• There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wrong Time, Only Time

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