Best 456 quotes in «lifetime quotes» category

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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 got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.