Lifetime Quotes
2001 Lifetime quotes by 1422 unique authors
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't…
— David Baldacci
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My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...
— Osamu Tezuka
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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 doing the right…
— Ray Bradbury
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Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when…
— Arundhati Roy
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I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support…
— David Wojnarowicz
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It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was…
— Robert James Waller
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Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once…
— Sarah Dessen
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How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
— Ian Mcewan
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The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like…
— Loren Eiseley
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At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as…
— George Clooney
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In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
— Robert James Waller
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you…
— Monica Ali
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and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow -…
— Jack Kerouac
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After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.
— Stephen Chbosky
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Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without…
— Philip Pullman
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Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are…
— Gloria Naylor
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious…
— Boyd K. Packer
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a…
— Khalil Gibran
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Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and…
— Janet Evanovich
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
— Bette Davis
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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
— Will Rogers
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It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we…
— Neil Gaiman
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