Lifetime Quotes - Page 8

• For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

  Uta Hagen

  Believe, Peculiar, Way

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

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• An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

  Storm Jameson

  Intelligent, Men, Careers

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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

  Storm Jameson

  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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• Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

  Robert De Niro

  Kings, Night, Schmucks

  "Fictional character: Rupert Pupkin". "The King of Comedy", www.imdb.com. December 18, 1982.

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• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Government, Disease

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.7, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.

  Fran Drescher

  People, Sometimes, Seasons

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• Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Trust, Loses

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• Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Sick, Alive, Language

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• 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.

  Myrtle Reed

  Wisdom, Acceptance, Concern

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Children, Writing, Novelists

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• Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Growing Up, Struggle, Temptation

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

  Florence King

  Years, Sexism

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.65, Macmillan

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• A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Long, People

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• It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Writing, Men

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”

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• One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.

  Wladyslaw Sikorski

  Sometimes, Minutes, Teach

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• For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Accomplishment, Understanding, Common

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• There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Riches, Study, Substitutes

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mother, Children, Grief

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

  Marcy Dermansky

  Natural, Natural Law, Housework

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• We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

  Barack Obama

  Acting, Use, Conflict

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Appreciate, Humanity

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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