Lifetime Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

  Johnny Depp

  Broken Heart, Ambition, Blow

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• It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

  Jonathan Agnew

  Cricket, Doubtful, Coverage

  "RIP CMJ: Cricket mourns Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the commentator who made Test matches special" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2013.

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• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Garden, Imagination, Goal

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• The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.

  Lu Tong

  Loneliness, Book, Inspiration

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• If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Short Life, Believe, Ocean

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• How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Mind, Sane

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.72, Spectra

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• As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Heart, Speak

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• Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Learning, There Comes A Time

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• The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Truth, Rivers, Arms

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.

  Anthony Gregory

  Thinking, Government, Anarchy

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Awakening, Remember

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

  Wes Jackson

  Motivation, Work, Thinking

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• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Poetry, Lightning

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

  Sergey Brin

  Mean, Technology, Tools

  Guest lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 05, 2005.

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