Meant Quotes

4065 Meant quotes by 2514 unique authors

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn… — Dallin H. Oaks
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up… — Lynda Carter
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to… — Tom Clancy
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot. — Meg Wolitzer
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction — Dan Simmons
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. — Edna O'Brien
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at… — J. Courtney Sullivan
Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction. — Scott Means
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we… — Laozi
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you… — Ric Ocasek
Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me. — Steffi Graf
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be… — David McCullough
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales… — Naomi Wolf
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies… — Ralph Bakshi
We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw… — Bon Scott
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear… — Oskar Schindler
The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can… — Melody Beattie

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