Best 456 quotes in «lifetime quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your 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 the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

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

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

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

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. Now having witnessed the events abroad these last several days, to President Carter, I want to issue a sincere apology. It is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime, President Obama has proven me wrong.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

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.

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.

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!

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.