Meant

Famous quotes containing the word meant:

“Owning a wife with him meant owning her.
She wasn’t anybody else’s business,
Either to praise her or so much as name her,
And he’d thank people not to think of her.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)