Lifelong Quotes - Page 6

• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• . . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

  Gerda Lerner

  Self, White, Goal

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• Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, Mean, Enjoy Life

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• Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

  Wallace Stegner

  Long, Teeth, Locks

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.37, Penguin

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• All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

  Kenneth Fisher

  Path, Return, Categories

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• I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

  Aubrey de Grey

  People, Suffering, Disease

  "Aubrey de Grey: We don't have to get sick as we get older". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

  Tyler Farr

  Land, Fancy Things, Goal

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• My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Mother, Rights, Issues

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• Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Experts, Slavery, Fancy

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1968.

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• This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Believe, Errors, Views

  "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.

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• So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Sacrifice, Habit, Aim

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.33, Multnomah

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• As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

  Melissa Marr

  Romance, Reader, Satisfying

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• Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Struggle, Odds

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

  Hill Harper

  Want, Minutes, Found

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• Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Years, Training, Olympics

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• Eating well is a lifelong priority.

  Sara Ramirez

  Eating Well, Priorities, Wells

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• I can't make wine simple. But I can make it fun and beautiful, instead of esoteric and intimidating. The minute you realize it's OK to stumble along like the rest of us, asking questions and paying attention to your own reactions, then you'll begin what I hope will be a lifelong love affair with wine.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Beautiful, Fun, Wine

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.15, Clerisy Press

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• A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

  Cathy Crimmins

  Baby, Pregnancy, Periods

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• I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe.

  Joe

  Jesus, Real, Men

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• From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Vision, God's Faithfulness

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.

  Tony Vlachos

  Years, People, Childhood

  "Interview: Tony Vlachos talks ‘Survivor: Cagayan’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. May 27, 2014.

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• I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

  Tony Vlachos

  School, Years, Birth

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

  Stephen Leacock

  Golf, Play, Lifelong Friends

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.181, University of Toronto Press

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