Lifetime Quotes
2001 quotes by 1422 authors
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Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.
— Scott Barry Kaufman
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Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you…
— Wayne Dyer
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again
— Delia Smith
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And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters…
— George Seldes
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I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some…
— Kiki Smith
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It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.
— Dan Fogelberg
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good…
— David Quammen
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I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever…
— Unknown Author
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
— Johnny Ramone
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe…
— David Riesman
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We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism…
— Os Guinness
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Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional.
— Stephen Kendrick
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours…
— Heidi Julavits
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to…
— Basil Bunting
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The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment…
— Tim Frick
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A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no…
— Michael Spiller
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I believe that everything has a purpose and that everything a person does will come back to haunt or save him. Life is like a…
— Unknown Author
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