Meant Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Positive, Knowledge, Talent

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Goal, Often, Aim

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership, Time, Today

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe

Body, Seen, Covered

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
Michael Jordan

Fun, Bad, Understand

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham

Religion, Freedom, Framers

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. Seuss

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost

Remember, Nobody, Invent

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Greatest, Person

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Men, Live, Real

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Mike Tyson

Society, Sometimes

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven Wright

Friend, Him, Makes

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Women, March

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Long, Him, Enough

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Suze Orman

Life, Thinking, Path

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Frank A. Clark

Good, Father, Son

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
Hillary Clinton

Peace, Between, Last

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
Lil Wayne

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thought, Flower, Reason

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

Good, Saying, While

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. Rowling

Work, Failure, Why

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Deep, Enjoy, Thought

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Dirk Benedict

Life, Matter, Easy

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin

Thinking, Balance, Action

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon

Life, History, Crisis

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.
Sienna Miller

Person, Confused, Said

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce

Busy, Put, Keep

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

Love, Hard, Down

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