Meant To Be Quotes - Page 32

• What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

  Edward Bond

  Greek, Literature, Able

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

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• We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure... When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

  Christie Brinkley

  Trying, Possibility, Peter

  "Good Housekeeping" Magazine, Volume 226, 1998.

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• I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

  Ilana Mercer

  Rights, Majority Rule, Liberty

  "Life, Liberty and Property". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2009.

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• "Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

  Barbara Neely

  Justice, Criminals, Were Meant To Be

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• Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

  Rex Murphy

  Self Esteem, Valentine, Cards

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• One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

  Martha Raye

  Catholic, Paper, Fitting

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 216), April 8, 1999.

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• It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Rights, Confusion

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.148, TAN Books

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• The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

  Peggy Noonan

  Influence, Function, Performances

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• A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

  Roger Verge

  Food, Cooking, Recipes

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• My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

  Nolan North

  Basketball, Sports, Real

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• No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Brain, Trying

  Annie Dillard (1992). “The living”, Thorndike Pr

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• I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Falling In Love, Love Life, Intimate Relationships

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• Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Lessons, Were Meant To Be

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• It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Support

  Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

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• Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Occupation, Profession

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• The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.

  Charlie Huston

  Hurt, Character, Impact

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• Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Brother, Legs, Firsts

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• We will be whatever they need us to be. Call us emo's, liars, and cheaters...tell people how awful we are and how little talent we have...do whatever it takes to make themselves feel better because at the end of the day, we are strong, we can take it. We don't need their approval to justify our lives. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us and they can try like hell to put out that flame but as long as in our minds we know who we are meant to be, they don't stand a chance.

  Andy Biersack

  Strong, Emo, Liars

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• I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.

  Stephen Colbert

  Black, Actors, Beard

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Games, Sweat

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• Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx
  Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.

  Andy Biersack

  Letting Go, Fun, Taken

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• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Football, Teacher, School

  "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.

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• All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

  Gabrielle Union

  Cancer, Thinking, Skins

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• I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

  Shania Twain

  Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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