quotes about Lifetime
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One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
-- A. E. Housman -
When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.
-- Abbi Glines -
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
-- Alison BechdelSource : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
-- Alphonse de LamartineSource : Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
-- Anne Frank -
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Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
-- Anne Lamott -
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
-- Arthur MillerSource : Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin
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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.
-- Auren Hoffman -
I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
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As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
-- Barbara Hambly -
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
-- Bell Hooks -
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
-- Benjamin Alire SaenzSource : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press
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You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
-- Beryl Markham -
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I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
-- Bess MyersonSource : "Chronicle" by Nadine Brozan, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 1994.
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A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
-- Bill Courtney -
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.
-- Bill Loguidice -
Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.
-- Bill Walsh -
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It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.
-- Billy Cannon -
Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
-- Bob BrownSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
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Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
-- Bob Kane -
Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
-- Bob Proctor -
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
-- Bob WoodwardSource : "Deja vu all over again". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 15, 2013.
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
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And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
-- Brian LumleySource : "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.
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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
-- Brit Marling -
Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household.
-- Bryan Fischer -
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
-- Burt MunroSource : "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.
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I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
-- Buzz AldrinSource : "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.
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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
-- Byron Katie -
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
-- Carl Sagan -
A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
-- Caroline PrattSource : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.
-- Catherine DeVrye -
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
-- Chaka Khan -
Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
-- Cheryl A. Esplin -
You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime
-- Chris Brown -
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What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I am no good without you, Ginesse,†he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
-- Connie Brockway -
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We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
-- Daniel PennacSource : "Why I’ll Read 20 Books Before Bedtime" by Rachael Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.
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If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.
-- David Platt -
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The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.
-- David Richo -
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
-- David Sylvian -
We are so many different people in one lifetime.
-- Deborah LawrensonSource : Deborah Lawrenson (2011). “The Lantern”, p.33, Hachette UK
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Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one
-- Dennis Prager -
Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.
-- Derwin L. Gray -
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
-- Desi Arnaz -
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
-- Desmond Tutu -
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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.
-- Diane AckermanSource : "A Natural History of Love". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1994.
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We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
-- Dimebag Darrell -
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
-- Dirk Benedict -
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
-- Doc Hastings -
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
-- Elizabeth BearSource : Elizabeth Bear (2006). “The Chains That You Refuse”, Nightshade Book
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The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
-- Elizabeth KostovaSource : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
-- Emile Zola -
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Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.
-- Empress Dowager Cixi -
Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
-- Eric Bana -
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
-- Eric Thomas -
In your lifetime, at what point do you stop being an idiot? I'm 24. Enough is enough!
-- Ernests Gulbis -
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I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.
-- Eva Green -
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.
-- Fran Drescher -
I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
-- Fran Drescher -
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The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
-- Francis Ford Coppola -
One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
-- Gail Godwin -
From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.
-- George StraitSource : Song: I Cross My Heart, Album: Pure Country, 1992
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Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.
-- Germaine Greer -
I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.
-- Grant CardoneSource : FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 19, 2017
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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
-- Graydon Carter -
Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!
-- Guy OsearySource : Twitter post from Dec 23, 2012
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
-- Harold S. KushnerSource : Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.187, Pan Macmillan
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I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.
-- Hisham MelhemSource : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2014
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It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
-- Hortense CalisherSource : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.47, Open Road Media
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I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.
-- Howard Dean -
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O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
-- Irma S. Rombauer -
The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.
-- Itzhak Bentov -
I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.
-- J. Lynn -
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In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
-- Jack HornerSource : 1993 On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26 Apr.
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Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
-- Jack LaLanne -
Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,
-- Jack Layton -
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
-- Jacob Bronowski -
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
-- James D. Watson -
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
-- James Dyson -
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
-- James Lovelock -
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.
-- James NicollSource : Usenet article, 2005.
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