Meant To Be Quotes - Page 33

• The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Essence, Drawing

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• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Football, Teacher, School

  "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.

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• I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

  Shania Twain

  Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

  Gabrielle Union

  Cancer, Thinking, Skins

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Track, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

  Wilfred Owen

  Children, Study, Enjoyed

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Optimistic, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Doubt, Progress

  Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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• What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, Walking Away, People

  "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You".

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• What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

  Louise Rennison

  What If, Lost, Horns

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• Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it!

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Dad, Names, Office

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Were Not Meant To Be, Picnics, States

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Long Ago, Two, Oneness

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• Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Moments, Stolen

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• Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.

  Kim Chernin

  Moving, Athlete, Weight

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• I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didnt have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Mom, Regret, Cancer

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• If something is meant to be, it's gonna work. If two people believe in something really strongly, I think a longdistance relationship is easy. They just make the time to be together. And you have to remember that any relationship is going to be hard...mostly because you're two different people and you have to figure stuff out.

  Avril Lavigne

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Avril Uncensored". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Men, Practice, Long

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• But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

  Claire Danes

  Believe, Dust, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Evil, Distillation

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• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  Myrna Loy

  Thinking, Hygiene, Common Sense

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• In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

  Gustav Mahler

  Space, Chamber Music, Audience

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