Meant To Be Quotes - Page 35

• A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

  Frank A. Clark

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Covered Up, Body

  Marilyn Monroe's handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1984.

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• You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

  Suze Orman

  Lying, Essence, Telling The Truth

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• If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doors, Deception, Enemy

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• Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Deadline

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• For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

  Reba McEntire

  Writing, Together, Actors

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• A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Hammers, Tools

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• Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Rocks, Perfect, Rock Music

  "Ozzy Osbourne: 'I had nothing to lose'" by Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Islands, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• You are pooped and demoralised,” 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

  Breakfast Of Champions, Reason, Courses

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• I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.” This was met with silence. “Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?” “Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.

  Jill Shalvis

  Sexy, Thinking, Silence

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• A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

  Andrew Vachss

  Dog, Jobs, Needs

  FaceBook post by Andrew Vachss from Jun 02, 2016

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• you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

  David Nicholls

  Twenties, Four, Littles

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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• I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Toxic, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

  Ann Brashares

  Thinking, Together, Want

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• It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Safe, Said

  "Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

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• We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

  Jane Fonda

  Long, Perfect, Long Time

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• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Letting Go, Song

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

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• The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

  Beth Moore

  Mean, Resurrection, Empty

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• We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Names, Darkness, Calling

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 06, 2014

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• The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

  Jacob Peterson

  Weapons, Trophies, Were Meant To Be

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• Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• ... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Men, Changed

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.292, Bantam

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• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mean, Boys

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

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