Lifetime Quotes - Page 40

• I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Mistake, Land

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• But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

  Dave Eggers

  Done, Want, Able

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.110, Vintage

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• No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

  Gene Hill

  Love, Friendship, Dog

  Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone “In Praise of Labs”

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• How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.

  P. C. Cast

  Voice, Broken, Waiting

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• History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

  Seamus Heaney

  Justice, Once In A Lifetime, Sides

  "Doubletake" l. 13 (1990)

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• Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Ideas, Going Away

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Believe, Two

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• I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.

  Ray Bradbury

  Selfish, Night, Waiting

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 151, 1957.

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• I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Courage, Moving, Keys

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• Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Mean, Men, Play

  FaceBook post by Rudolfo Anaya from Sep 11, 2015

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• An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Twenties, Cards

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• People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Men, People, Great Change

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• According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Tasks, Generations

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• You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Katniss And Peeta

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• He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Taken, Heart, Simple

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• In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. [...] I'd still relish this moment, killing you.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Selfish, Stupid

  "Fallen: Angels in the Dark". Book by Lauren Kate, December 10, 2013.

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• Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Past, Space

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• I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Odds, Order

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

  Desmond Tutu

  Yield, Moments

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.72, Random House

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• They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Littles, Helping, Wonder

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• How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a stallion—" He dissolved in a flurry of white smoke even before I could finish the sentence. Ha! Victorious again!" Yeah," Jim drawled while I remade the bed and fluffed up my pillows. "Aisling, two; sexy, naked men who just want to give her the pleasure of a lifetime with no commitment, zero.

  Katie MacAlister

  Sexy, Zero, Commitment

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• Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honesty, Lying, Failing

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• Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

  James Joyce

  Character, Night, Drug

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.81, e-artnow

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• Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Fighting, Giving

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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