Words matter. These are the best Meant To Be Quotes from famous people such as Herb Brooks, Nidhhi Agerwal, Alan Bradley, Bipasha Basu, Quentin Crisp, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
This is your moment. You’re meant to be here.
If you’re hard-working and meant to be loved by millions, you’ll have it.
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
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.
I think I’m just always myself, and I think that’s what’s most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.
Football is not a game meant to be played being nice to each other and all that, like ‘Kumbaya.’
It’s drama, it’s a lot of things, but you know it’s always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that’s what it is all about, really it’s sort of the important part about it.
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.
As a young manager, I had no idea what it meant to be a chef.
The Giving Pledge is not meant to be prescriptive or restrictive.
Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.
For no. 1, it’s great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it’s great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just – it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, ‘God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.’
If a game is meant to be played by everybody, it deserves to be on multiple platforms so everybody can play it.
I will admit to being slightly embarrassed that I am getting tattoos relatively late in life. Tattoos are meant to be something you get in your 20s when you’re actually worried about your appearance.
If you’re naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There’s no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.
I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I’m meant to be, but you have to get there first.
People don’t get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren’t meant to be together forever.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust – not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.
I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn’t.
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I’m meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I saw ‘The Shining’ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don’t understand when women’s rights are challenged – because you’re talking about human rights. You talk about subjugating an entire culture that we heavily depend on for everything we need for survival.
If something is meant to be, then it will be.
I don’t have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.
It’s such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can’t afford it.
Learning isn’t meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never ‘master’ a topic simply by taking a class.
There are days when there’s no will to do anything. It’s not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can’t just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won’t work with me anymore.
Well, ever since I was six, I had a little notebook with coverages and notes on the mental aspect of a game, what it meant to be a leader and what type of attitude you had to have.
I’m a person who’s meant to be heavy, but I need to take off 50 pounds. Blood pressure. I’m gonna try Weight Watchers.
When I say I wasn’t a ‘meant to be’ guy, I’ve almost been jaded in the sport, where I don’t believe in anything.
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.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn’t meant to be done for 25 years.
I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It’s really a horrific thing. It’s definitely worth considering it as torture. We’re just not meant to be in solitary confinement.
If you walk out of a movie that’s meant to be about race in our country, and you’re feeling good and happy, then that movie didn’t tell you all of the truth. It’s too big of an issue, and it’s too complicated for you to feel good. It’s something you should feel like you need to talk about.
Mammootty came on board unexpectedly. ‘Uncle,’ which I am co-producing with Sajai Sebastian, was meant to be a low-budget film and we had almost cast another actor in the titular role. But, during the shoot of ‘Puthan Panam,’ I narrated the film’s plot to Mammootty, who liked it and wanted to do the movie.
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn’t happen, it’s a shock. But I just feel that it wasn’t meant to be.
Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It’s really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it’s not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.
As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.
My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, ‘what was meant to be.’ She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch.
You can’t be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can’t be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.
Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.
When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy – and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I’ve always been aware of that. But, I’m a guy with confidence, and I’m not afraid.
If you don’t like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they’re meant to be.
Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
I can be a bit serious because I’m always focused on my work, but when Meri’s around I feel so relaxed. My body and soul are like, ‘Ah, OK, everything is fine.’ I know I am meant to be with her. It feels right.
People always ask me, how did you grow up to be so confident? I tell them, I always look in the mirror and say I belong, you are so beautiful and you are meant to be here.