Meant To Be Quotes - Page 28

• Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mother, Each Day, Retrospect

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• I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

  Glenda Millard

  Song, Heart, Long

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• Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

  Joey McIntyre

  Philosophy, Wish, Way

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• Knowledge was meant to be shared.

  Louis L'Amour

  Knowledge, Were Meant To Be

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Jubal Sackett”, p.184, Bantam

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• ... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

  Garrison Keillor

  Motor Vehicles, Upset, Scratches

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• I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

  Paul Ince

  Football, Knowing, Want

  "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

  Peter Farrelly

  Views, People, Wow

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• ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Brain, Population

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• The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Book, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

  Richard G. Scott

  Marriage, Powerful, Two

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• The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

  Nicholas Evans

  Things In Life, Nudge Nudge, Giving

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• Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Brave, Next

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• Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Air, Doors

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

  Aryn Kyle

  Trying, Matter, Fingers

  Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Self, Desire

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• Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Speech, Political Speeches

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Greek, Age

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

  Ralph Nader

  Competition, Socialism, Figs

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• We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Done, Puppets

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview with Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.

  Will Smith

  Mean, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

  Manila Luzon

  Humorous, Fall, Were Meant To Be

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "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. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Running, Art

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Together, Firsts

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