Lifetime Quotes · Page 23

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens…

— David Puttnam

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it…

— Marilynne Robinson

The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet,…

— John Nettles

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm…

— Ray Bradbury

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

— Robert Breault

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

— Kinky Friedman

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting…

— Romola Garai

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change…

— John Taylor Gatto

Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime.

— Natalya Neidhart

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,…

— Abbie Hoffman

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave…

— Jim Jarmusch

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

— Luther Allison

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

— Anonymous

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime…

— Bill Buford

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

— Bill Janklow

I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in…

— Glenn Hubbard

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their…

— Doc Hastings

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children,…

— Richard Carlson

You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.

— Rod Blackhurst

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making…

— Jeffrey Kluger

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them…

— Andrew Weil