Meant To Be Quotes - Page 27

• Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

  Timothy Findley

  Art, Dangerous Ideas, Literature

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• Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person

  Rita Zahara

  Believe, Moments, Reason

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• One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.

  Angeles Arrien

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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• A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Were Meant To Be, Doubtful

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Pants, Buying

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• Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

  Anna Torv

  People

  "Comic-Con: Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson Talk FRINGE, Saying Goodbye to the Show, the Possibility of a Happy Ending and More". Interview, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

  Sherman Alexie

  Moving, Were Meant To Be, Prison

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House

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• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

  Robert Fulghum

  Moving, Dancing, Finals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.26, Ivy Books

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• ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

  James Madison

  Military, Government, President

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• What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Secret, Remains, Ifs

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• The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

  Matthew West

  Christian, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

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• The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

  Zadie Smith

  Sleep, Were Meant To Be, Reader

  Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith (2003). “The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

  Chuck Mangione

  Beautiful, Music Is, Beautiful Things

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• Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

  Mike Tyson

  Humble, Men, Be Humble

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• I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.

  Kesha

  Rap, Men, Talking

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• Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

  Pat Derby

  Freedom, Animal, Hands

  Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

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• A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Doubt, Doe

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Wine, Enjoyed

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• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  Owen Arthur

  Were Meant To Be, Politician, Satisfied

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• Love is an energy, love is a mystery, love is meant to be true. Love is a part of me, love is the heart of me, love is the best thing we do.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Love, Heart, Energy

  Song: L.O.V.E. Radio Disney Edit, Album: I Am Me, 2005

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• Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Australia, Gabriel

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• Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

  Enya

  Love, Dream, Home

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• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, Firsts, Recitation

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• Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Games, Enjoyed

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