Meant To Be Quotes - Page 25

• My desire to fight comes from within... it's a personal journey of accomplishment, not meant to be judges or for me to judge others.

  Cat Zingano

  Fighting, Journey, Mma

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• There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

  Mikky Ekko

  Wind, Trying, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Essence, Perfect, Miracle

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.60, Discovery House

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• Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

  Lemn Sissay

  Rain, Home, Wind

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• But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

  Robyn Lawley

  Body, Plus Size

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• Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

  Dan Meyer

  Were Not Meant To Be, Steel, Dinner

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• IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.

  Hakim

  Art, Emotional, Dancing

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• Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.

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• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  Karl Marx

  Duration, Determined, Individual

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Trying, Want, Were Meant To Be

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy

  John Lennon

  Easy, Knows, Known

  John Lennon (2002). “The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years”, p.215, Berklee Press

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• I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Daughter, Dad, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

  Willow Smith

  People, Positive Energy, Don't Like Me

  "Willow Smith already brushing off critics, defending tongue ring". www.mtv.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

  Sara Genn

  Progress, Suits, Thrown

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• People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

  Robyn

  Exercise, Thinking, People

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• Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

  John D. Caputo

  Way, Moments, Deconstruction

  John D. Caputo (1997). “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion”, p.125, Indiana University Press

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• It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

  Emily Matchar

  Doe, Buckets, Vinegar

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

  Esther Earl

  Strong, Half, World

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• Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

  LZ Granderson

  Reading, Book, Differences

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

  Edmund Spenser

  Simple, Law, People

  Edmund Spenser (1890). “Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First”, London : G. Routledge

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• Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Dying, Lasts

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

  Hannah Arendt

  Emotion, States, Feels

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Rich, Heard

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151), 1989.

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• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Get Up

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

  Michael Chabon

  Mind, Cards, Pleasure

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