Lifetime Quotes - Page 33

• One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Study

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• You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime." -Kahlan Amnell

  Terry Goodkind

  Mother, Giving, Bad Mood

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• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Ignorance

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.28, New Society Publishers

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• Maybe not this year or the next but one day they'd end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I'd get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.

  Abbi Glines

  Falling In Love, Years, Knowing

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• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Ghost

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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• What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

  Caitlin Moran

  Depressing, Art, Mean

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• Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

  Nora Roberts

  Eight, One Day, Abnormal

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• I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Sorry, Together, Moments

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• And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

  Melina Marchetta

  Suffering, Lucky, Knees

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• You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

  Danielle Steel

  Regret, Years, People

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.

  Nora Roberts

  Children, Home, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Witness”, p.286, Penguin

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Son, Belonging

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.111, Diversion Books

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• It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Sleep, Cities

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• It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

  Harry Styles

  Girl, Thinking, One Direction

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• After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

  Jamie Ford

  Emotional, Stoic, Fluent

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby

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• Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Years, Giving, Together

  Amelie Nothomb (2007). “The Character of Rain: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Intimate Conversation, Waiting

  Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”

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• Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Mistake

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.

  Nalini Singh

  Mother, Father, Matter

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.455, Penguin

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• The Seeker needed a nice long lifetime eating sunshine.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Sunshine, Long

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