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“Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.”

“I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.”

Years Sports Periods Ten Majors Lifetime Average League Tied Carter Major League Batting Bowlers

Author:Bob Uecker

“Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.”

Moments Stage Photography Lifetime Moments In Time Freezing

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.”

Ifs Wanted Romance Five Lifetime If I Could Smoking Forty Great Romance

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.”

Giving Said Home House Pleasure Land Position Duty Property Lifetime Profit Expected Earnest Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition

“After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.”

Important Life Is Decided Lifetime Distraction Deep Thought

Author:Robert Breault

“A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.”

Hours Party Lifetime Stranger Holiday Spouse Cocktails Cocktail Parties

Author:Robert Breault

“In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.”

Persons Society Lifetime Where We Came

Author:Jack Horner

“Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.”

“One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.”

World Hours Class Skills Bigger Lifetime Misconception World Class

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.”

Whole Time Hours Lifetime Whole Life

Author:Herman Wouk

“But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.”

Men Earth Desire Choices Christ Judgment Eternity Lifetime Every Man Rejection Rejects

Author:Billy Graham

“Few learn golf in a lifetime.”

Golf Lifetime

Author:Grantland Rice

“Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.”

Years Persons School Waiting Worry Lifetime Get Better Single Person It Gets Better

Author:Rick Mercer

“Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.”

Mind War Weapons Lifetime

Author:Paul Tsongas

“I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.”

Past Struggle Figures Grateful Lifetime Curious Allowing Looking Back Be Grateful

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?”

“Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved.”

Should Children Humor Light Kids Funny Lasts Joy Enjoy Hours Church Baby Laughter Humorous Meetings Lifetime After Hours

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.”

Writing Courses Chance Poet Majors Lifetime Quantity Minors Chances Are

Author:W. H. Auden

“If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.”

Ifs Heart Doe Able Spiritual Lord Lifetime Temples Spiritual Life

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.”

Long Lasts Wise Eternal Lifetime Educated Servant Innate Offspring Chiropractic

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.”

People World Way Should Trying May Ideas Bigs Happens Challenges Stage Tests Angry Lifetime Injustice Diminish Rise Above Disgrace Rise Above It

Author:Carly Fiorina

“For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.”

World Two Ends Sometimes Enough Seems Differences Week Changed Months Becoming Lifetime Baths Two Weeks Sock Two Months Regularity

Author:Ernie Pyle

“I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.”

Crisis Lifetime Survived

Author:Bess Myerson

“To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.”

Enough Whole Sin Effort Labor Lifetime Rewards Whole Life

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.”

Want Enough Mountain Lifetime Sunrise

Author:Katarina Witt

“I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.”

World Kind Country Facts Happens Film Young Lost Loses Accepting Focus Generations Happened Particular Crisis Lifetime Refuse France Makers

Author:David Puttnam

“We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.”

Looks Country Sex Parent Particular Color Mirrors Lifetime Patterns Our Country

Book:You Can Heal Your Life Gift

Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift

“Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.”

May Use Answers Study Goes On Findings Research Gains Appreciate Ultimate Lifetime Financial Seeking Practicals Obscure Unseen Usefulness Investigators Ultimate Power

Author:Eugenie Clark

“I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.”

Humans Different Whole Wealth Human Beings Greater Player Information Source Lifetime Whole Life

Author:Rita Coolidge

“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.”

Years Happens Seeing Lifetime Climate Climate Change Geological Time

Author:James Lovelock

“Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.”

Difficult Commitment Lifetime Permanent Organized Our Society Organized Religion

Author:Mary Douglas

“I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.”

Ifs Doe Lifetime Optimistic Immense Homosexuality Repression Criminality

Author:Bob Brown

“Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.”

Knows Firsts Wells Has Beens Proud Members Let Me Lifetime Nra

Author:Joe Manchin

“Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.”

People Ifs Two Happens Suffering Causes Parent Particular Son Circumstances Murder Responsible Lifetime Including Karma Instance Unfortunate Unfortunate Things

Author:Patrick Duffy

“We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.”

Humans War Term Generations Economic Cost Thirds Dollars Lifetime Financial Iraq

Author:Earl Blumenauer

“It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.”

Years Seems Opportunity Fun Years Ago Theater Lifetime Great Opportunity Once In A Lifetime

Author:Lance Burton

“The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.”

World Has Beens Lifetime Scary Cents Scary Things Rhinos

Author:Mark Carwardine

“If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.”

Ifs Mean Sides Fate Risk Higher Lifetime Environmental Developing Dna Equations Obesity Profile Take Control

Author:David Agus

“Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.”

Men Two Three Balance Ultimate Lifetime Cancer Nemesis

Author:David Agus

“The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.”

Ifs Enough Happens Lifetime Fortunate Lucy Once In A Lifetime

Author:Desi Arnaz

“Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs.”

Two Might Jobs Figures Fame Married Trade Lifetime Nine All Time Fund Halls Denied Hall Of Fame Forbes Heiress Trust Funds Gigolo

Author:Howie Carr

“We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.”

Believe Humans Conditions Lifetime Human Condition Improving

Author:Nick Clooney

“Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.”

People Ifs Persons Art Artist Differences Lifetime Just One Making A Difference

Author:Ray Conniff

“Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.”

Real Age Poor Habit Eating Consequence Lifetime Eating Habits

Author:Richard Codey

“Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.”

Thinking Long President Party Records Republican Lifetime Strongest President Obama Republican Party Veteran

Author:Wesley Clark

“I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.”

Years Stills School Speak Language Praying Degrees Lifetime Newspapers Despite Ashamed Dozen Israeli Hebrew Fluency

Author:Joshua Foer

“To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.”

Facts Bigs Opportunity House White Building Lifetime White House Once In A Lifetime Once In A Lifetime Opportunities

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.”

Science Death Actors Talent Fame Lifetime Surgeons

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.”

Want Games Morning Lifetime Clock Every Morning Nursery Docks Wakes You

Author:Smokey Robinson

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