Best 456 quotes in «lifetime quotes» category

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

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.

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.

If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.

I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

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.

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

"I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I'm quite pregnant actually ... this is the adventure of a lifetime.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

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.

In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.

In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

In Western Europe, most countries have variations of the lifetime pension system for most workers so they are keeping the system that we are walking away from. By comparison, 50% of the American workforce is not offered any retirement plan by their employers. And of those who are offered a plan, roughly 25% do not choose to join. In other words, everything is voluntary, and that's one of the reasons our results are so perilous for most people.

In your lifetime, at what point do you stop being an idiot? I'm 24. Enough is enough!