Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

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

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

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

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

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

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

Anxiety is a trap; it's not a trend to be followed. It's not supposed to be cool, it's meant to be fixed.

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.

I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it.

Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.

Makeup is something that is meant to enhance your features, not to make you look like something you're not.

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

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