Lifetime Quotes - Page 19

• I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

  Thornton Wilder

  Eye, Secret, Influence

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• 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.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Painful, Feels, Deserve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

  Cary Elwes

  Grateful, Actors, Should

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• There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

  Ogden Nash

  Progress, Headings, Has Beens

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• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

  Harvey Fierstein

  Silence, Definitions, Way

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• A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Enough

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• When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

  Ethel Waters

  Joy, Suffering, Trying

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• Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Seems

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• It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

  Isabel Paterson

  Want

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• A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Giving, Needs, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

  Isabel Allende

  Moving, Thinking, Diversity

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Economy, Individual

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

  Kerry Packer

  Mines

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

  Morley Safer

  Numbers, United States, Painter

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I have a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. I understand that people disagree on this issue, but I believe that it is a woman's decision, it's a difficult decision, but it's a decision between her and her physician. I will do everything that I can in 50 states of this country to make sure that women have a choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• 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.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Shepherds, Christ, Good Shepherd

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• The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

  Eva Amurri

  Character, Personality, Acting

  "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Butterfly, Giving, Rainbow

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Love Life, Voice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.178, Editora Dracaena

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• In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

  Dallas Campbell

  Population, World

  Source: collider.com

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• You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

  James Badge Dale

  Children, Sleep, Here I Am

  Source: collider.com

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• You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Earth, Arguing

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• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sweet, Passion, Silence

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