Quotes with meant

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Shapiro The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Abdoulaye Wade The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • William Golding The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Shashi Tharoor There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • A. W. Tozer To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • H. P. Lovecraft We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Art Spiegelman Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Georges Clemenceau 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.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Albert Einstein When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Bryson When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Rice When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Al Franken When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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