For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.
I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.
The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me. . . It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot. " "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.
What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?
I'm not a "what if. " I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.
I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
Oh boy, when you're with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.
I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not so much as a father or as a friend, but as a boss, as a chef that's to make decisions throughout the day all the time. I just slowly started burning out. Once you lose your confidence like that, you start being angry in the kitchen. I couldn't recognize myself anymore. I started writing the journal. It was never meant to be a book, but the editor at Phaidon read parts of it. As editors do, I guess.
I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D. C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile.
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.
The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.
She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.