Lifetime Quotes
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A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
Wes Nisker
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I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
Donna J. Nelson
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Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
Boyd K. Packer
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Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
Steve Israel
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
Michael Caine
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The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.
Catherine DeVrye
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I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
Ezra Pound
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Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.
Empress Dowager Cixi
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You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.
Jonathan Dee
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It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
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Spread your hate. It'll last a lifetime.
Conan O'Brien
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Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
Gail Godwin
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You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
Burt Munro
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If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.
Joe Sacco
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I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
Michael Jackson
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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
Virginia Woolf
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius
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If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
Ernest Legouve
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I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.
Peter O'Toole
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...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not.
Ossie Davis
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I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
Seth Godin