Meant To Be Quotes - Page 23

• I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Feelings, Together

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.14, Penguin

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• The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.

  Tony Burke

  Cutting, Government, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

  Esther Earl

  Strong, Half, World

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• The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Government, People

  "Gov't 'can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation': Tony Burke". Interview with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. August 30, 2016.

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• I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving, What If, Trying

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most part, kind of southern man, kind of the true heart of what it meant to be a Kiwi kind of farmer; very kind of outdoor man living off the land. That kind of thing, you don't see so much anymore these days with everyone being metrosexual and lattes and laptops.

  Rhys Darby

  Book, Heart, Men

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Space, People, Body Types

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  Karl Pilkington

  Animal, House, Pet

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Dying, Lasts

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

  Hannah Arendt

  Emotion, States, Feels

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Rich, Heard

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151), 1989.

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• Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

  LZ Granderson

  Reading, Book, Differences

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Get Up

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

  Michael Chabon

  Mind, Cards, Pleasure

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• I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

  John Green

  Mystery

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.

  Robert Barry

  Drawing, People, Pieces

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

  Glenn Beck

  Mistake, Errors, Faults

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• I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

  Heidi Julavits

  Humorous, Heart, Imagination

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.260, Penguin

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• The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

  Regina Doman

  Battle, Were Meant To Be, Danger

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• A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

  Rumer Godden

  Simple, Garden, Joy

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• The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Beer, Expression

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

  Avril Lavigne

  Believe, Destiny, Work Out

  Song: Keep Holding On, Album: The Best Damn Thing, 2007

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