Quotes with meant

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  • Ben Marcus In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • George Eliot In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barry Sanders Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Betty Ford Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • André Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bee Wilson Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Marcus Aurelius Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Richard Nixon 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 Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Brad Bird Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Aaron Copland 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 music was never meant to be soporific.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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