Top 100 Rest Of Our Lives Quotes
#1. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?
Mary E. Pearson
#2. Some people get to live life. Some people survive it. We're survivors. We can carve out our piece of happy, and, I swear to God, baby, right now, you got my vow, for you and for me, the rest of our lives, I'll bust my ass to carve our piece of happy.
Kristen Ashley
#3. We spend most of our lives striving so hard
to earn our own permission to be at rest
where we are
- when we could have done it all along.
Ivan M. Granger
#4. How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
Kyo Maclear
#5. We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us - anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
Bill Russell
#6. Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.
Lemony Snicket
#7. [Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
Claire McCaskill
#8. Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Michael Moore
#9. In the end he'll find out what's going on with me, since we still have the rest of our lives. Maybe not ahead of us, maybe just today, but we do have our lives, there's no doubt about that.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#10. None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
Jake Lloyd
#11. Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Douglas Coupland
#12. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives
Joan Ruddock
#13. Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati Roy
#14. Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,
Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. The things we surrender to when we're young, we keep surrendering to the rest of our lives.
Anthony Breznican
#16. But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.
Neal Stephenson
#17. I pledge to love Jesus more than anything or anyone. And you are next in line, God's remarkable gift to me. I promise to protect, honor, and cherish you for the rest of our lives.
Robert Wolgemuth
#18. I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one.
Stephanie Perkins
#19. Comfort and familiarity are not what God points us toward. Jesus isn't in the business of flying to and fro for the rest of our lives, hand-delivering spiritual baby food to us.
Louie Giglio
#20. I love you", he whispered. "You'll have the words every day for the rest of our lives.
Katherine Allred
#21. The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
Ben Nelson
#22. If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath - our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
Wayne Muller
#23. We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
Virgil Goode
#24. Our health - and indeed our entire lives - can be seen as the sum of all our moment-to-moment decisions. This includes how we choose to eat and drink, think and feel, act and react, and move and rest on any given day.
Kelly A. Turner
#25. Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.
Dillon Burroughs
#26. I stand on a wall to protect what is mine. I'm his and he's mine. It's the way it's meant to be. We'll protect each other forever, for the rest of our lives. No matter what.
Courtney Cole
#27. God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#28. The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.
W. A. Criswell
#29. I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse - preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it - if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.
Sarah Morgan
#30. Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, for the rest of our days till the end of our lives.
J. Lee Roberts
#31. Feel me. Feel how much I want you - not just now, but for the rest of our lives.
Pepper Winters
#32. love.
love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. love is comfortable. i could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else.
F.R. Media
#33. If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
Lemony Snicket
#34. Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
Sandra Bernhard
#35. We fool ourselves
into thinking
we're strong
then complain
the rest of our lives
crippled by
the consequences.
Barry Gifford
#36. In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.
Donna Lynn Hope
#37. There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn
#38. Our single friends say they are going to be alone for the rest of their lives and we tell them they are crazy. We tell them they are definitely going to find someone. But how do we know? We know nothing.
Melissa Broder
#39. When we participate actively in our lives and open our senses to all the stimuli around us, we build memories that can be retrieved and enjoyed the rest of our lives.
Marilu Henner
#40. Love isn't a mistake. But I know true love is rare enough that when you find it you fight for it. Marry me, Kate. Come back to Charleston with me and be with me for the rest of our lives.
Beatriz Williams
#41. It was so easy to decide their fate, when they were nothing more than numbers on the sheets, presented to us for a signature by our adjutants. Now they were real people, with broken lives, torn families, and memories which would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Ellie Midwood
#42. She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose her. That's how deep I was in this. - Caleb Drake
Tarryn Fisher
#43. God makes us with the exact ingredients we need for life. Unfortunately we spoil the mix by throwing in extras that damage the final outcome. God takes the rest of our lives trying to heal and restore us back to His perfect cake mix.
Margaret Kazmierczak
#44. The love Adrian and I shared was powerful, and I knew it would sustain us for the rest of our lives, no matter what was to come.
Richelle Mead
#45. Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
Betty Dodson
#46. Nothing goes perfectly for us. But ... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something ... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?
Takehiko Inoue
#47. One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
Lauren Willig
#48. When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.
Lena Dunham
#49. I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer ...
Lucy Christopher
#50. I wonder how much we don't see. How much of our lives we witness and accept as truth when the rest of the iceberg - the heaviest, bulkiest part - is buried and invisible.
Sarah Ockler
#51. We spend our life until we're twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
Robert Bly
#52. It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too
individuals whose canvas is our lives.
Sue Halpern
#53. I get that, and I deserve it. But I'm telling you, Landry Jacobs, I have loved you, I do love you, and I will love you for the rest of my life. And if you can't believe that yet, I'll spend every minute of our lives proving it to you.
Megan Erickson
#54. May misfortune follow us for the rest of our lives, but never catch up-Nicolas Fox, The Heist
Janet Evanovich
#55. Even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.
Alain De Botton
#56. What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
Campbell Scott
#57. Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
Astro Teller
#58. We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.
Francoise Sagan
#59. There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you were yelling at me that you would never sleep in the same bed as me again.
Amy Tan
#60. Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.
Hayley Williams
#62. What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
Michael Ondaatje
#64. We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#65. We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.
Christopher Fowler
#66. For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.
Sherman Alexie
#67. Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
John Donne
#68. We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.
Giuliana Rancic
#69. We were happy. We deserved to be happy. We would remain happy for the rest of our lives. Because I had my monster. And he had me. And together, we had everything.
Pepper Winters
#70. Thank God for Carrie Wiatt (creator of Diet Designs)! She has raised my consciousness of healthy eating so much that it will be practiced by me and my family for the rest of our lives. I never dreamed low-fat food could taste so good!
Sela Ward
#71. If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it ... you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.
Leon Uris
#72. The postmortem readjustment is one that many of us have had to make when our parents die. The parental door against which we have spent a lifetime pushing finally gives way, and we lurch forward, unprepared and disbelieving, into the rest of our lives.
Sally Mann
#73. We might stay here the rest of our lives with the sky slammed shut, but mama had found the part of herself that refused to bow and scrape, and once you find that, you got trouble breathing down your neck.
Sue Monk Kidd
#74. Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
#75. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
Steven Van Zandt
#76. Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
Naveen Jain
#77. 'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.
Scott Adsit
#78. At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
Gary David Goldberg
#79. As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.
Johnny Depp
#80. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this."
"Yes, we can go on like this," said Cesare. "We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#81. We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.
Jo Nesbo
#82. So Friday? Do you have plans for Friday? And then I laughed, because the Colonel and I didn't have plans for this Friday, or for any other Friday for the rest of our lives.
John Green
#83. Bex, please use this against me for the rest of our lives as an example of how I am about as clever as a shed.
Heather Cocks
#84. The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
Henry Cloud
#86. For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.
Erma Bombeck
#87. Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
Mary Balogh
#88. If the most connected we've ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we'll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
Vironika Tugaleva
#89. Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
Richard Rohr
#90. The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.
Bernhard Schlink
#91. We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
#92. But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.
Susan Ee
#93. I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
J.D. Salinger
#95. Just the two of us. We're in it together. The pleasure will be ours alone. For the rest of our lives.
Mark Helprin
#96. Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
Mary Balogh
#97. I love you, Desdemona."
"I know," she whispered. "You don't have to say the words."
He smiled slowly. "Trust me, you're going to hear them every day for the rest of our lives.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#98. Because we do not rest we lose our way ... Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.
Wayne Muller
#99. We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.
John Cameron Mitchell
#100. It would be an honor, and my greatest desire, if you would allow me to protect, love, and serve you for the rest of our lives.
K.M. Shea
