Top 1200 Meant Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

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

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

It's taken a lot for me to understand that the position I'm in is meant to benefit other people.

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

I realized that I am not meant to relax all the time. I have gotten into the system of working for 12 hours.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

Playing in the Premier League meant it would be nice to play in the England team as well.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

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

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

People need to be sensitive to all body types. Not everybody is meant to look the same.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

After a hard training day, I used to massage myself. That meant recovery was slow.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.