Meant Quotes

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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's… — Julia Cameron
God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him — Hannah Whitall Smith
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good… — Charles Colson
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. — Edmund White
Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly… — George MacDonald
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth. — J M Coetzee
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is… — Thomas Dolby
Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can… — Jenny McCarthy
I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step… — John Mortimer
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education,… — Danica McKellar
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it… — Ray Bradbury
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the… — Abraham Lincoln
To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that… — Clare Boothe Luce
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex… — C.S. Lewis
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is… — Joan D. Chittister
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs. — Malcolm Bradbury
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant… — Gautama Buddha
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not… — Robert McCloskey
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are… — Plato
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his… — Robert L. Reymond

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