Meant Quotes

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It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. — William Shakespeare
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to… — Christie Brinkley
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious… — Aaron Copland
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had… — Alan Curbishley
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."… — Parker J. Palmer
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths,… — David Perkins
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action. — Georges Clemenceau
Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it. — Julia Child
The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so — Guy de Maupassant
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant… — James Freeman Clarke
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt… — Pope Pius XI
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I… — Tom Hanks
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. — Mary Parker Follett
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people… — John O'Donohue
God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God… — Mother Teresa
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material… — C.S. Lewis
All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one. — Brandon Boyd
Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant… — Deepak Chopra
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of… — Ambrose Bierce
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you. — Francesca Lia Block

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