Meant To Be Quotes

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

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.

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.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

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

Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage.

That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.

We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need - true peace.

[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of filmmaking style.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

Run, run, run - with everything you have - into everything you are meant to be.