Top 100 Quotes About A Lifetime
#1. Sexual preferences develop, evolve and change over a lifetime. [ ... ] Without opportunities for sexual exploration and discovery, how is a 19 to 20-year-old to learn what he or she likes and how his or her body reacts?
Darrel Ray
#2. Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment.
Cindy Vine
#3. My mother's dress bears the stains of her life:
blueberries, blood, bleach,
and breast milk;
She cradles in her arms a lifetime
of love and sorrow;
Its brilliance nearly blinds me.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#4. I know that a heart can hold on for a lifetime, hoping for the impossible, loving, wanting what it will never have.
Menna Van Praag
#5. Forgiveness is no easy task; it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on
LDarnell
#7. A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Edward Weston
#8. I thought I'd sit write down and right you a letter. Just words on paper to last you for a lifetime. But it occurred to me when I thought back and remembered, that the better me begins and ends with you.
Nick Moccia
#9. You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!
K. Hari Kumar
#11. Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.
Dacia Maraini
#12. It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.
Rhonda Byrne
#13. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.
William R. Cutrer
#14. What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth - truth you can stand on, live by, and trust ... forever.
Elizabeth George
#15. Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
Earl Nightingale
#16. Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
Ray Conniff
#17. Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.
Tim Bowler
#18. Some people never understand the gift they have. And some people wait a lifetime to have someone to love.
Kristen Callihan
#19. Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.
Jennifer E. Smith
#20. Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
Vanessa Marano
#21. Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. If 10 percent of them are close to your age, that would be around 50,000 people in a lifetime. Given that you have 500,000,000 potential soul mates, it means you would find true love only in one lifetime out of 10,000.
Randall Munroe
#23. The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#24. You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key.
Truth Devour
#25. She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
Jodi Picoult
#26. The light poured through the windows upon his photographs and the poem of us sitting together a last time. Robert dying: creating silence. Myself, destined to live, listening closely to a silence that would take a lifetime to express.
Patti Smith
#27. After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.
Heather Demetrios
#28. It took me an hour to know you, and only a day to fall in love, but it will take me a lifetime to forget you.
Stevie J. Cole
#29. I love you,' he whispered again, wonderingly, as he understood at last how a lifetime together with someone that you loved could seem like an eternity, and yet not be long enough.
Joan D. Vinge
#30. I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.
Cedric Go
#31. I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
Don Ameche
#32. Some men are like a church-organ
you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box
they have four or five thin jingles.
Austin O'Malley
#33. To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.
Gustav Ejstes
#34. You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
Eric Thomas
#35. ... she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
Sharon Kay Penman
#36. The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
Bernard Malamud
#37. If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
Warren Farrell
#38. The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
Fritz Weaver
#39. It doesn't do my self-esteem much good though, does it?'
'Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention,' said Philippa abstractedly.
Dorothy Dunnett
#40. Often you don't know whether you're the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.
Tim Kreider
#41. She's not that kind of girl, the endless string type. You get a shot at something like her once in a lifetime. And if you screw it up there's a special place in hell for you.
Karen Marie Moning
#42. It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.
Isabel Paterson
#43. He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.
Richard Flanagan
#44. 'I have nothing to offer you but a lifetime's worth of failures and misfortune,' Sergio said with damp eyes,
'but they are yours if you want them.'
And for some reason buried deep in the incomprehensible mystery that is woman, she did want them. Very much.
Josh Wagner
#45. I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.
Nick Joaquin
#46. A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety.
Todd Henry
#47. I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde
#48. Pleasure will make you happy for days.
Wealth will make you happy for weeks.
Honour will make you happy for years.
Love will make you happy for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
Bill Courtney
#50. You don't know how lucky you are, my dear. Don't waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.
Danielle Steel
#51. Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time. A curtain of purple wisteria partially conceals the entrance to a familiar garden ... In a wink, a lifetime, we pass through the infinite movements of a silent overture.
Patti Smith
#52. I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.
Stevie Wonder
#53. We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.
Solange Knowles
#54. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams
#56. I want to live a lifetime in this moment--these precious seconds between anticipation and ectasy.
J.A. DeRouen
#57. Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry
that can last a lifetime.
Tess Callahan
#58. Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?
Caprice Crane
#59. Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second
Robert Ringer
#60. I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
Steven Spielberg
#61. If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
Dennis Prager
#62. Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.
RuPaul
#63. I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.
Ivana Trump
#65. Hearts become attached as easily as they become broken and our minds are left sifting through the pieces, which I fear take a lifetime to put back together to achieve any form of acceptance.
Jaycee Dugard
#66. To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
Norman Maclean
#69. I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.
Carrie Fisher
#70. Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take a lifetime to exhaust.
Bill Carter
#71. I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
Malcolm McDowell
#72. It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.
Peter Lynch
#73. I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.
Andy Cohen
#74. Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.
Anna Godbersen
#75. We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
Lauren DeStefano
#76. Developing a program that will serve you a lifetime is not an instant fix. Attitude shifts take much longer, but when they take, they tend to take for good.
Mireille Guiliano
#77. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
Lang Leav
#78. Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match ... If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Larry Lucchino
#79. True influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes ... the secret smile in the eyes of a friend
Thornton Wilder
#80. I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.
Lynn Austin
#81. Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.
Stephen Chbosky
#82. It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
Andy Stern
#83. This requires a lifetime of divine therapy: having our minds and hearts transformed by God's Word.
Michael S. Horton
#84. Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.
Mia Sheridan
#85. If you learn to laugh at yourself, you'll be entertained for a lifetime.
Lee McLaughlin
#86. Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
Langston Hughes
#87. Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.
Evita Peron
#88. Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Adolf Galland
#89. One tiny stain on a woman's reputation was as bad as a lifetime of debauchery.
Elizabeth Charles
#90. A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.
Alice Hoffman
#91. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.
Richard Hamming
#92. I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
#93. We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.
Bell Hooks
#94. I'd rather have five minutes of something amazing than a lifetime of nothing special
G.J. Walker-Smith
#95. Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
Philip Yancey
#96. Do you know my band's song Once in a Lifetime?"
I nod my head because I know that song very well. It's one of the ones I used to listen repeatedly on my iPod.
"I wrote that song about you. About meeting you that night.
Kim Karr
#97. With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
Iain Duncan Smith
#98. The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting
#99. Children should have some warning, some way of knowing it was dangerous to look out at the world with unguarded pleasure. But who would want to tell them, to deprive them of those few moments of blissful ignorance that would have to last a lifetime?
Kate Alcott
#100. Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
Sharon Salzberg
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