Lifetime Quotes - Page 25

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

  Marcy Dermansky

  Natural, Natural Law, Housework

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• The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Army, Self, World

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

  Masiela Lusha

  Night, Giving, Together

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• If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  School, Past, Self

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• You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

  Mickey Knox

  Lying, Mean, Purity

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• We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.

  Patricia Garfield

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

  Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

  Christopher Willard

  Children, Painting, Miserable

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• The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

  Margery Wilson

  Self, Mind, Inward

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• [On deciding not to have children:] Yes, there is a little sadness ... But there's also a little sadness around the fact I may never get to go to the moon. Jeez, you can't do everything in this lifetime.

  Henriette Mantel

  Children, Sadness, Moon

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• We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Dna, India

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• What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

  Monica Seles

  Safe, Want

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• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Faults, Bother, Wells

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Family, Children, Kids

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• You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

  Christopher Galvin

  Jobs, Giving, Credit

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• Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

  Jim Rohn

  College, Process, University

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 04, 2014

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• It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

  Kevin Costner

  Men, Feet, Watches

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• Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Old Age

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• Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Punishment, Doe

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Advice, Quality, Coffins

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• Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Money, Hoarding, Use

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• Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Littles, Given, Advantage

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• Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

  Christina Baldwin

  Sacred, Sparks, Way

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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