Top 1200 Were Not Meant To Be Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

I met Scarlett [Johansson] briefly, but Josh [Brolin] and George [Clooney], in particular, were so welcoming and so inclusive and really brought me into the fold from the beginning. They were just very considerate of me, and it meant a lot [shootong Hail, Caesar!].

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

I knew that life itself was this journey, and I've always seen it as a kind of school in that we're meant to have fun, and we're meant to grow, and we're meant to evolve and learn to be better humans and how to love each other better and how to love ourselves and become a part of a community of love on this planet.

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.

Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

We were never meant to be baby, we just happened

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.

The fact that Skype was founded in Estonia, the fact that Skype had a successful exit, which meant that Estonia benefited in a major way, meant that entrepreneurship became legitimate. There were more than a thousand people who either worked or had worked at Skype who had seen what it takes to build a global business.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.

Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us - it's the only way we know how to say, be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now - let go.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.

I can't pretend that I'm just a friend... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.

The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.

Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight

I'm a believer that some messages are not meant to be shared publicly. They're meant to stay inside the clubhouse.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a completely different writing experience. Not to say I haven't enjoyed writing 'The Child,' but I confess there were times when I felt as if I was wrenching it out of my body with bloodied fingernails!

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.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

Maybe that’s what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe