Meant To Be Quotes - Page 19

• An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Men, America

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldn’t possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.

  Alice Clayton

  Perfect, Finding Yourself, Way

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• No really - listen. I believe in signs, and that things are meant to be, I truly do. But try and be open to anything, okay? It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.

  Alice Clayton

  Falling In Love, Believe, Mean

  Alice Clayton (2014). “Screwdrivered”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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

  Caroline Myss

  Safe, Were Meant To Be, Ends

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• Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Needs, Use

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.88, Souvenir Press

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• Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mean, Men, America

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

  Henry Cloud

  Moving, People, Leaving

  Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Energy, Paganism, Idiocy

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• When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

  Leslie Ludy

  Kings, Christ, Glory

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• The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Kindness, Real

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.217, Multnomah

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• Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

  Steven James

  Real, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Doors, Legends

  "Legends Of Tomorrow: Wentworth Miller On Whether Captain Cold Is A Hero". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ign.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Girl, Moments, Vulnerable

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

  Charli XCX

  Fashion, Broken, Cheerleader

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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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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• I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.

  Marie Calloway

  Memories, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Getting along with one and other isn't meant to be difficult.

  Sally Fitzgibbons

  Difficult, Getting Along

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I believe this all has to do with how I decide to perceive the experience. Pain is part of life and makes you who you are meant to be. I just let it flow through me, at whatever rate it decides to do so. Then I go to the hockey rink and hit a few slap shots.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Pain, Believe, Hockey

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• The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Fruit, Bears

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, People, Missing

  "Interview: DIIV On Their Sophomore Album, 'Is The Is Are'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

  Erica Schroeder

  Roles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• If I am only sure of one thing in life, it's that it's meant to be lived!

  Alex Gaskarth

  Things In Life, One Thing, Ifs

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