Meant To Be Quotes - Page 29

• Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Australia, Gabriel

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• Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Games, Enjoyed

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• The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Book, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, Firsts, Recitation

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• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  Owen Arthur

  Were Meant To Be, Politician, Satisfied

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• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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• Look to love and you may dream, and if it should leave then give it wings. But if a love is meant to be, hope is home and the heart is free.

  Enya

  Love, Dream, Home

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• Love is an energy, love is a mystery, love is meant to be true. Love is a part of me, love is the heart of me, love is the best thing we do.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Love, Heart, Energy

  Song: L.O.V.E. Radio Disney Edit, Album: I Am Me, 2005

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• Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Wine, Enjoyed

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• Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mother, Each Day, Retrospect

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• I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

  Glenda Millard

  Song, Heart, Long

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• ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Brain, Population

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• I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

  Peter Farrelly

  Views, People, Wow

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• I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

  Paul Ince

  Football, Knowing, Want

  "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

  Joey McIntyre

  Philosophy, Wish, Way

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• Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

  Anna Torv

  People

  "Comic-Con: Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson Talk FRINGE, Saying Goodbye to the Show, the Possibility of a Happy Ending and More". Interview, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Speech, Political Speeches

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Greek, Age

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

  Ralph Nader

  Competition, Socialism, Figs

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• We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Done, Puppets

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview with Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.

  Will Smith

  Mean, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

  Manila Luzon

  Humorous, Fall, Were Meant To Be

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Self, Desire

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• One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity.  When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are.  When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Passion, Self

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