Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime. -2008
Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've always thought of it as a kind of double portrait, and a portrait of our relationship, which in some cases means nothing. But it makes me feel connected.
There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. ” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.
Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.
If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.
I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
We have a lifetime of wearing makeup, so while it's fun for girls to play, I think it's better that we wait until we're older to wear makeup!
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
