Quotes with lifetime

Quotes 41 till 60 of 83.

  • Tony Benn Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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  • Gail Godwin None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Bill Gross Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Max Weber Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Jesse Owens People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Angela Davis Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Willa Cather Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Andrew Carnegie Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bill Hybels Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Al Jarreau That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Bill Clinton The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Lucian The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
    Lucian
     
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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