Quotes About Lifetime

#1. I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Mike Oldfield

#2. After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

Valerie Bertinelli

#3. As Chief Luthuli said, 'When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

Nelson Mandela

#4. What kind of persons writes fiction about the past?"
- "The kind of person for whom one lifetime is not enough."

- Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

#5. I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

Jamie Ford

#6. The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

Krista Tippett

#7. Every day is a new journey for me, and I feel like, in my lifetime, I've been blessed to experience such a lot.

Bindi Irwin

#8. The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

Shirley Maclaine

#9. I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.

Christa Wolf

#10. In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Lewis Black

#11. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#12. 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 Kostova

#13. The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Paul Simon

#14. You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Kerry Packer

#15. There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Maxwell Anderson

#16. It's the lifetime after the wedding that really counts, not the fanfare and ceremony of the day.

Linda R. Graf

#17. When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Ethel Waters

#18. I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

James Nicoll

#19. I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Hedi Slimane

#20. The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.

Don Scribner

#21. A moment in heaven and a lifetime in hell, that's the story of my life.

Tali Alexander

#22. If in this lifetime,
I wont get to have you,
I'll make sure that if
I meet you in my next life
I wont have to think twice on saying that
"I waited a lifetime to say I love you...

Anjali Banerjee

#23. Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

Tama J. Kieves

#24. The more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone's lifetime.

Shane Kuhn

#25. But that was a lifetime ago. A different person ago.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.

Rama Swami

#27. If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.

Colleen Hoover

#28. Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

Joan D. Chittister

#29. I've learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it's cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime.

Christine Brae

#30. I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

David A. Siegel

#31. If you come into contact with that rare once in a lifetime opportunity, instantly own it, remember all it takes is a slight pondering moment for a stake to be placed, the opportunity can and will easily be claimed by another.

Victoria Addino

#32. It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

Jack Finney

#33. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Criss Jami

#34. What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

Pat Cadigan

#35. She's different and we could be something different together. Something astounding. Something you encounter once in a lifetime, if that.

J. Saman

#36. More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.

Susan Jacoby

#37. Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

Hunter Hayes

#38. I understand that you want "normal" by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.

Cyndi Goodgame

#39. When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.

Douglas Coupland

#40. I don't want to think of you having to spend a lifetime with someone who doesn't deserve you.

Anonymous

#41. Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Barry Goldwater

#42. Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

Stephen Greenblatt

#43. Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime.

Stanley Hauerwas

#44. We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Jerry Bridges

#45. I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Tammy Wynette

#46. Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#47. And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.

Julian Barnes

#48. Nobody, in my lifetime, in either party, has reached out with a message of hope, growth and opportunity to minorities better than Jack Kemp.

Lawrence Kudlow

#49. Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

Jeffrey Fry

#50. Of all men only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure, only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well; they add every age to their own; all the years that have passed before them they requisition for their store.

Seneca.

#51. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Desmond Tutu

#52. But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it,

Chris Anderson

#53. Burn the book. It serves you once.
Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.
Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

Kowtham Kumar K

#54. I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

Olivia Newton-John

#55. Your uniqueness is the master key that unlocks the hidden treasures of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

#56. The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first ... I want to watch it suffer.

Brad Stine

#57. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.

Siobhan Davis

#59. Keeping children secure and comfortable at night contributes toward a lifetime of easy sleep for them, an objective worthy of the weariness you may feel now.

Norma Jane Bumgarner

#60. The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Ben Harper

#61. The only option for a creative person was constant motion - a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.

Meg Wolitzer

#62. Simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess.

Harper Lee

#63. However, because the object raising events has a strong reference to each event listener, this can cause a memory leak when the lifetime of the object raising events exceeds what would be the lifetime of an event listener.

Anonymous

#64. Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Aeschylus

#65. It wasn't personal - more of a "been there, done that, got my lifetime supply of psychological trauma" kind of thing.

Joanna Wylde

#66. I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

M. F. Husain

#67. Clive thought of his work in totality, of how varied and rich it seemed whenever he was able to raise his head and take the long perspective, how it represented in abstract a whole history of his lifetime. And still so much to do.

Ian McEwan

#68. I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

Edward Brooke

#69. But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me ... and go on living without me.

Mary Karr

#70. Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.

Lawren Leo

#71. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days ... nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

#72. You'll make better art after a day at the office than you will after a lifetime in an ivory tower.

Sara Benincasa

#73. I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.

Henning Mankell

#74. I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.

Christopher Lee

#75. When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

Frederick Lenz

#76. The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

Mark Carwardine

#77. No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

Marcel Duchamp

#78. There was something so scary and heartbreaking about watching your lifetime Superwoman fall apart in front of you.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#79. One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.

Ken Poirot

#80. Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren't measured in hours, days, and years.

Josh Lanyon

#81. 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

#82. Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Ronald Reagan

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

Scott Aukerman

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

Joel C. Rosenberg

#91. Only his hair is the same: that auburn crown, like leaves in autumn. Impossible. I close my eyes and reopen them: the boy from a dream, from a different lifetime. A boy brought back from the dead. Alex.

Lauren Oliver

#92. 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

#93. Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Tim Bowler

#94. Some people never understand the gift they have. And some people wait a lifetime to have someone to love.

Kristen Callihan

#95. Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.

Jennifer E. Smith

#96. Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#97. The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#98. 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

#99. Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.

David R. Hawkins

#100. Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

Vanessa Marano