Meant To Be Quotes - Page 21

• We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

  Bon Scott

  Wall, Ceilings, Caves

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• Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

  Scott Means

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Clear, Ifs

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

  Dan Simmons

  Catholic, Church, Predictions

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• We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

  Kevin DeYoung

  Decision, Trying, May

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• What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Loyalty, Wall, Memories

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• Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  World, Down And, Upside Down

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• I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Children, Blood, Ideas

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood dreams had finally found the place where they could materialize. I had arrived where I was always meant to be. I did not know how it could be practically achieved, but I was certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was here that I wanted to live.

  Kuki Gallmann

  Dream, Night, Childhood

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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Taken, Reader, Comprehension

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• 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

  Life, Struggle, Valleys

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• To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Men, Majority

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• When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

  Gary Zukav

  Sweet, Satisfaction, Were Meant To Be

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 04, 2014

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• If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.

  James Van Praagh

  Fall, Looks, Way

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• Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

  Megan Hart

  Way, Sometimes, Whatever It Takes

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• Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Broken

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• We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

  Charlotte Mason

  Animal, Degrees, World

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

  Monica Drake

  Suicide, Skins, Pulse

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books

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• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  Ofra Haza

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Kissing, Were Meant To Be, Still Smiling

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• All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

  Brandon Boyd

  Heaven Sent, Heaven

  "Song: 'Megalomaniac'". December 2003.

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• Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.

  Sarah

  Love You, Needs, Tested

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• Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Simple, Bird, Joy

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• Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

  Bob Geldof

  Rocks, People, Needs

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• Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

  Peter Enns

  Mirrors, Losing Control, Expectations

  Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins

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