Lifetime Quotes - Page 29

• I just have always wanted to shave my head. I think every woman should just do it once in her lifetime.

  Alexandra Shipp

  Thinking, Just Do It

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My generation was going to change the direction America took. I was completely convinced that we would have a very different kind of society as a result of the protests that I was part of, and I think that's partially true. We obviously never really got to what many of my generation believed was possible, but the amount of change I've seen in my lifetime, both social change and political change, is staggering. I think my generation can take a little bit of credit for that by just opening up the conversation.

  Susan Lyne

  Thinking, Political, Different

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• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Length, Whole

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• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

  Robert Altman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Chance

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

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• I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

  Stephen Ambrose

  World, Study, Politician

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• Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Book, Needs, Fiction

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

  Richard Bach

  Fake People, Truth, Integrity

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.47, Random House

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• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Light, Jewels, Color

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• During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Roots, Needs, Causes

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

  Eric Bana

  Car, Facts, Venues

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• It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, Money, Years

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• America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

  Glenn Beck

  Dad, Kids, Ideas

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• Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

  Tony Benn

  Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

  "99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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• Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Growth, Becoming, Pursuit

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Loss, Simple, Weight

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• In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Decision, Taught, Doe

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• In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

  Allan Bloom

  School, Ignorant, Students

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Liberty, Conformity, Dissent

  "Science and Human Values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1956.

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• To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Home, Fire

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• In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Simple, Healthy

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• God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

  Kirk Cameron

  Kids, Love Is, Men

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• Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Source, Deep Within

  "Pretensions: Adieu, Adieu, Albert Camus" by Joe Queenan, reason.com. March 1990.

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