Lifetime Quotes - Page 36

• A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Men, Calm, Hours

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.157

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• I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Sight, Understanding, Quests

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• In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

  Jon Meacham

  Jobs, Book, Journey

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• ... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

  Bill Gates

  Years, People, Dollars

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• Favorite People, Favorite Places,
  Favorite Memories of the past ...
  These are the joys of a lifetime
  Those are the things that last

  Henry Van Dyke

  Photography, Memories, Past

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• Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Lasts, Destination

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.108, Harper Collins

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• I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.

  Meghan McCain

  Needs, Palin

  "Meghan McCain: No more Palin" by Kendall Breitman, www.politico.com. July 29, 2014.

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• During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Fashion, Europe

  "Britain must quit EU, says Thatcher" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

  Brian Lumley

  Bedtime, Certain, Findings

  "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

  Ernie Davis

  Good Life, Happy Life, Years

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• I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

  Scott Weiland

  Appreciation, Art, Light

  Scott Weiland (2011). “Not Dead & Not for Sale: A Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Fire, Dust, Wind

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• The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

  Che Guevara

  Sacrifice, Desire, Purpose

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Creativity, Opportunity

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• I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

  Tammy Wynette

  Writing, Men, Minutes

  "Mini Bio/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

  David Shuster

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Brilliant

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• You can waste a whole lifetime
  Trying to be
  What you think is expected of you
  But youll never be free

  Chris Rea

  Thinking, Trying, Waste

  Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

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• Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Two, Done

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead

  Massad Ayoob

  Sleep, Home, Gun

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• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

  Wilder Penfield

  Hate, Brain, Different

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

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• I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

  George J. Mitchell

  Believe, People, Term Limits

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• So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

  George Jung

  Summer, Jesus, Horse

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• The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

  Paul Simon

  Running, Courses

  Song: Mother And Child Reunion

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• How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

  Norman Maclean

  Asks

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.160, University of Chicago Press

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