Lifetime Quotes - Page 34

• For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

  Sarah Palin

  Inspire, Deeds, Keep Moving Forward

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

  Gilbert Parker

  Morning, Heart, Men

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

  Robert Plant

  Awards, Land, Achievement

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". "GQ" Interview, www.gq.com. November 6, 2011.

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• In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

  Dennis Prager

  Political, Debate, Meanness

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• If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

  Dennis Prager

  War, Reading, People

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• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  J. B. Priestley

  Reading, Important, Half

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• If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Giving

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• If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

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• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Strength, Peace

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

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• On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Years, Dancing

  "Alan Rickman Says Goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K.Rowling" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Serious Illness, Entrepreneur

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• I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

  Kid Rock

  Thinking, Proud, Where You Come

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2013

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Years, May

  "TalkAsia" with Monita Rajpal, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2013.

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• The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

  Adam Savage

  Lying, Voice, Important

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Ambitious

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

  Curt Schilling

  People, Mentor, Teammate

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• There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Needs, Recycling

  "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

  Richard Simmons

  Laughing

  "Fat jokes hurt; they're not funny" by Richard Simmons, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2011.

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• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

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• Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Country, Jobs, Law

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• I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musician, Would Be, Saws

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• Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Memories, Past

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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