Lifetime Quotes - Page 4

• I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, War

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

  Leonard Nimoy

  People, Done, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

  Karrine Steffans

  Men, Abuse, Welcome

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Suffering, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.

  James Elkins

  Beautiful, Morning, Blood

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.4, Routledge

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• In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

  Errollyn Wallen

  People, Collaboration, Different

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• I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

  Judith Weir

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

  Toni Onley

  Half, Hours, Plus

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• The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Knowledge, Practice

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• The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Education, Adventure, Feelings

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

  Billy Cannon

  Effort, Artistic, Being An Artist

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• A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, One Thing

  "All or Nothing" by Emma Brockes, www.newyorker.com. November 10, 2014.

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• If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Night, Knitting, Sweaters

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.

  Amor Towles

  Talking, People, Giving

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Economic

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• Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!

  Guy Oseary

  Fans

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2012

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• Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.

  Joy Williams

  Giving Up, Tired, Heart

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• Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Soul, Done

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.3, 1909.

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• Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Cost, Devotion

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Shade, Too Short

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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• In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, World, Problem

  Speech to Scottish Tories, 1999.

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• Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Husband, Children, Teenager

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• Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Fighting, Men, Rights

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• If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, People, Three

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, p. 123, 2011.

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