Lifetime Quotes

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. (Joseph Campbell)
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. View quote
Arthur Miller
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. View quote
John Barrymore
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. View quote
William Hazlitt
One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. View quote
Willa Cather
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. View quote
Richard Bach
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. (Baltasar Gracián)
Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime! View quote
Raymond Smullyan
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. View quote
Pablo Picasso
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. View quote
Erich Fromm
Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem. View quote
Ronald Reagan
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived." View quote
Ted Williams
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. (Gérard Debreu)
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. View quote
Earl Warren
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child. View quote
Pablo Picasso