Were Meant To Be Quotes - Page 4

• The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

  Douglas Preston

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

  Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Blood, Goal, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Shannon and all of us started the band so it just felt really natural, and then she quit, and then she came back, and then she quit again. I love working with her and would do it again, but that's just not in the cards. And Josh is a great person to play with - he can play any instrument. He's really inspiring and positive. It was great. It was meant to be temporary.

  Theresa Wayman

  Play, Cards, Band

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• Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.

  Leon Brown

  Heart, Light, Fire

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• When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

  Robert Carlyle

  Past, Looks, Way

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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• We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, America, Judging

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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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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• If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Bullshit, Let It Go, Hello

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• There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

  Summer Glau

  Growing Up, Dancer, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Responsibility, Names, People

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

  David Grossman

  Long, People, Soul

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• The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

  Bill Johnson

  Meant To Be

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• My heart lives in so many places. With so many people. But God whispers to me that I really have only one home, and that is with Him. I will never be content on this earth. I will always be a nomad. It was meant to be that way. My heart was created with a desire for a home, a nest, a sanctuary, and that can be found only with Him in Heaven.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Home, People

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Outsiders

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• I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

  Elizabeth George

  Age, Seven, Meant To Be

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• I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

  Sean Penn

  Two, People, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Giving, Shadow

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• Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Cuddling, Want

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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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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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Progress, Lord

  'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1917)

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• ...all these kids you can't seem to make sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect, because we're not. And I know I'm not perfect, but I believe I was meant to be.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Believe, Kids, Perfect

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• Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.417, CUA Press

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