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“I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.”

Thinking World Today Terrible Happenings Lifetime Optimistic Awful Grandchildren Present Time Change For The Better My Grandchildren

Author:Isabel Allende

“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.”

“I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.”

Thinking Littles Shows Next Waiting Enjoy Chance One Day Elements Sitting Surprise Lifetime Phones Come Up Fantastic Next Day Show Business Phone Calls Element Of Surprise

Author:Elton John

“The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.”

Years Has Beens Numbers Brain Serious Huge Cost Percent Lifetime Including Billions Administration Injury Disability Healthcare Wounded Veteran Taxpayers Huge Numbers Head Injuries

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.”

Values Millions Economic Amount Cost Standards Lifetime Soldier Payment Dead Soldiers

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.”

People Ifs Years Law Break Lifetime Predictable

Author:Myles Munroe

“I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.”

Trying Moments Opportunity Happenings Lifetime Great Things Momentum Seize The Moment Opportunities Of A Lifetime

Author:Eric Thomas

“When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.”

People May Has Beens Gay Lifetime Expected Demon

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.”

“You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.”

Thinking Years May Important Lasts Thousand Lifetime Thousand Years

Author:George Lucas

“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.”

People Years Firsts Moments Mother Opportunity Names Given Born Brother Moon Lifetime Fortunate Right Time Right Place Flew Wright Brothers

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.”

Reality Space Training Lifetime Recovery Unexpected Catastrophe Emergencies Observing Hazards Participating Once In A Lifetime Once In A Lifetime Experiences

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“It takes a lifetime to build tradition.”

Tradition Lifetime

Author:Mario Andretti

“One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car.”

People World Way Needs Whole Order Social Car Figures Lifetime Complexes Whole Life Symbols Encounters Association Ancestor Automobile Evaluate Navigate

Author:Paul Solman

“Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.”

Knows Men Inspirational Soul Moments Inspiration Pain Asks Loss Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Morrow

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.”

World Believe Ends Seems Happens Spiritual Suffering I Believe Path Teacher Teaching Universal Lifetime Awakening Realization Take Time Unnecessary Spiritual Teachers Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.”

Ifs Watches Serious Lifetime Species Extinction

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.”

Enough Humor Funny Rooms Week Missing Lifetime Drank Coke Missing Something Pepsi

Author:Lewis Black

“I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.”

Three Morning Special Football Lifetime Driving Our Family Michigan Homecoming Arbors Michigan Wolverines

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.”

Knows Reason Facts Lasts Form Dies Grows Know How Subjects Lifetime Caprice Forms Of Love

Author:Dacia Maraini

“Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!”

Life Is Dies Evil Virtue Lifetime Meaningless Payback

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.”

War Whole Born Regard Lifetime Whole Life Protest Carrie Ritual Epic Futility Infuriating

Author:Anne Waldman

“Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."”

Reason Funny Comedy Television Originals Lifetime Beaten

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Use Film Sound Imagine Masters Tired Lifetime Very Good Narrative Getting Tired Sound And Music

Author:Dave McKean

“You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.”

Ifs Way Courses Hero Lifetime Comedian Persona Default Great Ones Brando

Author:Woody Allen

“Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.”

Bases Lifetime Day To Day

Author:Julia Stiles

“My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.”

Originals Intention Lifetime

Author:George Soros

“I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.”

Knows Actors Lifetime Fabulous Prerequisites Alfie

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.”

Thinking Persons Girl Fans Seasons Lifetime Including My Favorite Golden Intimate Massive Portraits Dvds Golden Girls

Author:Sara Bareilles

“Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.”

Way Giving Give Me Lifetime Credit Abundance

Author:Evita Peron

“Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.”

People Ifs Men Challenges Failure Degrees Adversity Lifetime Prosperity Single Life Equanimity

Author:Samuel Butler

“Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.”

Way Made Hard Success Goal Mistake Achievement Lows Lifetime Accomplish Setting Settings Hard Times Having A Hard Time

Book:Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

Source: Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

“A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.”

Ifs Might Failing Gun Lifetime Encounters Owners Gun Control Concealed Firearms Warranty Concealed Carry

Author:John Abbott

“If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.”

Ifs Values Attention Easier Mouths Lifetime Stability Considering Word Of Mouth

Author:Seth

“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”

Thinking Humans Earth Race Gone Seeing Sky Lifetime Species Scales Evolve Islands Dirt Unbelievable Emphasis Fling Brevity Tropical Geologist Swiftness Geological Time Tropical Islands

Author:John McPhee

“Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?”

Should Long Doe Fighting Black White Struggle Rights Fit Lifetime Civil Rights Stereotype Frost Beneficiaries Oreos

Author:John McLaughlin

“And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.”

Years Moments Bigs Sides Accepting Lifetime Incongruity Small Moments

Author:Rachel Joyce

“I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.”

Lucky Lifetime Collaborators

Author:Trey Anastasio

“Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.”

Mind Firsts Decision Conflict Lifetime Teeth

Author:Gene Fowler

“I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all.”

Want Kind Doe Kids Fall Independent Lifetime Falling In Love Partners Independent Women

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.”

People Trying Sometimes Wanted Artist Asks Individual Inspiring Lifetime Exceptional Pedestal

Author:John Sexton

“We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.”

Tvs Projects Lifetime Lists Partners Managers Clients

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.”

Thinking Should Trying Sometimes Feelings Differences Powerful Effort Accepting Failing Right Now Succeed Exciting Lifetime Celebrate Productive Enjoyable

Author:Martha Beck

“Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.”

Needs Might Lasts Week Fine Months Lifetime Inspired Lifestyle Motivated Dedication Lifestyle Change

Book:No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

Source: No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

“Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.”

Perfect Lifetime Pursuit One Woman

Author:John Piper

“And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?”

Years Wells Done Eye Lasts Faces Jesus Christ Hours Judging Jesus Christ Lifetime Inevitable Faithful Servant Righteous Well Done Faithful Servants

Author:John Piper

“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.”

Men Goal Baseball Lifetime Baseball Player Famous Baseball Little League Baseball

Book:My turn at Bat: the story of my life

Source: My turn at Bat: the story of my life

“One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.”

Way Use Powerful Talking Minutes Century Lifetime Most Powerful Poetry Is Devices Distortion

Author:Robert Morgan

“I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.”

Thinking I Can Three Lost Waiting Regret Weak Lifetime Vices Bliss Boredom Stations Anticipation Echoes Liberated Transport Railway Railway Station

Author:Eric Morecambe

“I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.”

Thinking Way Looks Persons Kids Parent Generations Lifetime Wow

Author:Tony Parsons

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