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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

This only comes once in a lifetime. I think, basically, in two years I did probably what all I could do at USC. ... I just followed my heart and thought it was best.

Ko Simpson

I didn't figure there was anything else I could do, ... There's no making up for a lifetime [of information].

Peter Ellis

This kind of thing happens once in a lifetime.

Jose Freches

It's been the experience of a lifetime, one of the greatest honors I've ever had.

Pamela Smith

Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lisa Morris

Treat your customers like lifetime partners.

Michael Leboeuf

I'd like to see clean water in my lifetime.

Sen. Mary Lundby

In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime.

Chetan Ahya

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Luciano De Crescenzo

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

William Mckinley

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

James Dyson

This is the outstanding achievement not only of our lifetime but in terms of human history.

Michael Dexter

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity and to do it on Australia Day makes it even more special.

Layne Beachley

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Philip Wylie

In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, or more frightened by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, or the Senate.

Harry Taylor

We were all thinking that 2002 had been a once-in-a-lifetime event, that it would never happen again. So far, this year is worse than 2002.

Tom Pagano

For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are going to see in their lifetime.

David M. Maroney

It's our teams getting excited and meeting our goals. We know that hopefully in our lifetime we'll find a cure for this.

Sandra Patten

It was the experience of a lifetime to fly with the Blue Angels and unlike anything I've felt before.

Mark Mcfarland

No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.

Greg Lemond

If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

Pat Boone

It was a once in a lifetime experience. I've never experienced anything like that wind. It was just blowing so hard.

Stephen Dardar

He's definitely got shelf life. He's one of those rare breeds that comes along once or twice in lifetime.

Henry Schafer

We feel this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Tony Parrish

When we learned he was coming, we asked him to do the demonstration and he was more than happy to. This is an extremely big deal because he is very well known and it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for local residents.

Teresa Moiola

It's definitely going to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. And it will be good to give the troops a taste of back home, especially since so many of them are from this area.

Paul Saunders

What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.

Laura Ahearn

I've hit too many guys in my lifetime to want to hit anymore.

Adam Mcgrane

I will always be here...I will always look out from behind these eyes...It's only a lifetime, It's only a lifetime, It's only a lifetime.

Pink Floyd

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Cynthia Johnson

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Proverb

Not in my lifetime.

Dan O'connor

Over a lifetime, a college graduate earns about $1 million more on average than someone with only a high school diploma.

Raymund Paredes

If we use the old antiquated systems we've got now, a Mars landing won't happen in my lifetime.

Gordon Cooper

I think God has blessed all of us with at least one gift, so I think it's just a matter of do we find it within our lifetime?

Ving Rhames

Tyler Evans swam a lifetime best in the 100 fly. It was a good team effort.

Todd Wuerger

This is a chance of a lifetime -- it secures (the children's) future. We all work harder and try to do our best.

Jose Maldonado

People were asking where things were. You've got to remember, back in those days, Hopkins was a lifetime away.

Chuck Hall

This is like a once-in-a-lifetime experience doing this ruler stuff. And it's something that we're probably not going to forget.

Jose Vasquez

It's just a dream come true - it's the pinnacle. It's a lifetime ambition. I was born in '72 so I was only two years old when we went there in '74.

Mark Schwarzer

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

It was quite a good experience, a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I wanna thank the Dodgers for letting me be there. It's something I'll never forget.

Dioner Navarro

That third finalist is a big boost. Kevin's previous lifetime best was 1:42.

Jim Bolster

Coming into the Big House and getting a win can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You want to do everything you can to let it sink in.

Victor Abiamiri

It's a once-in-a-lifetime decision. We want to make sure we get it right.

Kerry Tharp

My pony is about critters a horse would encounter in its lifetime.

Denise Brown

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known as the Lord of the Flies.

Ronnie Barker

This is just kind of one of those wholesome activities. It's really an opportunity to make memories that will last a lifetime.

David Swain

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Abe Reichental

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. The major hurdle is going to be financial.

James Duncan

I don't have any idea what he paid me - he didn't have to pay me. To me it was a thrill of a lifetime.

Bob Antilla

It is the absolute thrill of a lifetime to have coached these kids when they were little and then to see how they've matured as individuals and as runners.

Angie Williams

It seems like a lifetime since I left.

Jordis Unga

All in all, I think we had a good day. I'd say 65 percent of the girls were close to their lifetime-bests and the number of guys was close to that as well.

Brian Dickmann

The rumor was I was being kicked out. But I have a lifetime lease. So I went down and talked with them and they said they weren't. They said they were happy to have me here.

Johnny Grant

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

Richard Lester

I grew up with Ernie Harwell. Jack Buck is, like Ernie, an icon. Of course in 1988, when he made the call, it was a special attachment that lasted a lifetime. Let's say it was well said. I couldn't believe what I just saw, either.

Kirk Gibson

This is one of the worst (economic) crises of our lifetime, we're facing not the worst winter but a winter that never ends.

George Fulton

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Gail Godwin

[Hoffman] is an amazing human being. It's like a lifetime has just ended.

Larry Levine

I never believed that it would be possible, but you have this chance once in a lifetime.

Gosia Sobala

But it is still the most important immigration reform that I will have seen in my lifetime.

Richard Armey

Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realize we are a repository. They don't have to give them to us in their lifetime. They can will them to us.

Ann Thompson

Florence is growing by leaps and bounds, and if we don't do something to get good infrastructure, we're going to be in trouble. This is the greatest opportunity Florence County has ever had in my lifetime.

Sherwin Welch

This closest visit to our planet was a lifetime event, ... I was glad to have been alive and there to watch this great event.

Scott Simon

It's a taxable gift only to the extent that it reduces your allowable (lifetime) exemption.

Roger Levine

You mean I have a lifetime job?

Larry Lucchino

You're only supposed to get four of those treatments in your lifetime. That's the most you can get because it starts affecting your heart.

Sara Friederich

Heaven, it was like looking at heaven. It's been a long, lifetime dream to be here. I get emotional even thinking about it.

Michelle Roark

The main thing we want these kids to have is the experience of a lifetime.

Troy Mauldin

This is an opportunity of a lifetime.

Chris English

Your house is the biggest, best investment you will make in your lifetime. You should give it a good bath when it gets dirty.

John Muller

You can make your resolution and keep it for a year but if you don't make a lifetime affirmation of change, you'll be back in the same boat.

Dr. James Wilcox

This is the chance of a lifetime.

Alan Schlesinger

The memory, it lasts for a lifetime.

Jose Vizcaino

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

The entry of Lifetime Fitness has been good for Columbia in that it was the incentive for CA to make many of the improvements we have made (to our health clubs and swimming pools).

Rob Goldman

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

There's a lifetime of work that can be done.

Scott Pointon

It was a lot of fun. It was the experience of a lifetime.

Liz Shimek

On the broader scale, we hope this event will contribute to their lifetime learning. It's becoming very important to know a foreign language in this world.

Dr. Tatiana Karmanova

We made it all the way to Portland, Oregon. That was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Davina Flores

I've waited a lifetime to see one of these fly. It's so big and powerful, but almost - oh, I don't know - majestic.

Sam Powell

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Maxwell L. Anderson

Learning is a lifetime process and you just keep going.

Steve Mcanelly

Celebrities, you work hard for your fans. Now you have the opportunity to let them bid on a special treasure that they can cherish for a lifetime.

Theodora Kutchar

I can't be married to another person for 30 years; I can't grow up with another person -- that just won't happen, not in this lifetime.

Linda Hogan

I'm a little nervous, but I'm just going to go and have as much fun as I can, because it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I'm just going to go down and try.

Creighton Boyd

Has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.

Van Cliburn

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Alexa Posny

I've lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty years ago?

Bobby Valentine

I can't thank Kenny enough for the opportunity he has given me. He gave me the opportunity of a lifetime.

Helen Pitts

It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Carol Hutchins

Lifetime of pain and counseling.

David Livingston

Frankly, it's kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the brand. It's a way to tell all of our customers and investors why this merger is important to them.

Roy Spence

You get a player like this probably once in a lifetime.

Joe Maloof

Our diet starts when we are born and it makes sense that what you eat over a lifetime will make a difference.

Mara Vitolins

In my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of my leadership in Washington. And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself.

Harry Taylor

It was great, we had nothing to lose. We just played our hearts out. It's amazing, a once-in-a-lifetime chance.

Amanda Ward

Nothing like this has ever happened. I keep hearing it's a once-in-a-lifetime event, and I certainly hope so.

Ron Yoda

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean

You can get a company to revenues in your lifetime. And you can get a company to profitable revenues on $20 million to $30 million in capital, not $100 million.

Gerry Langeler

We're going to skate our best and represent our country the best we can. We're going to the opening ceremonies. We're going for the full experience because this is a once-in-a-lifetime deal for us.

Aaron Parchem

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

Polish Proverb

Trees only absorb carbon to a certain point in their lifetime.

Jennifer Morgan

It is egregious, I think, to have an injunction issued that puts a group of people under lifetime house arrest.

Alan Schlosser

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Raymond Smullyan

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

This is one of the better honors I've ever been honored with. This award is more of a lifetime achievement and leader award. This was my first time being nominated, and I won.

Alton Adams

For me, it's the thrill of a lifetime.

Mike Tirico

Every month during GRACE's 5-year expected lifetime we will get a map of Earth's gravitational field.

Michael Watkins

It was the trip of a lifetime.

Tahni Longworth

Coach Mac is the biggest leader that I've experienced in my lifetime.

Stephen Barton

She was fully capable of running the place if Dad had to be someplace. During her lifetime, she's helped build fences, she's helped saw wood.

Vivian Mathers

It's a tough story, but I think it has a lot more than grimness to offer...it's what we are experiencing in our lifetime.

Sean Penn

What takes a lifetime for a person to accumulate, you can lose it overnight, and that is what actually has happened to me.

Pete Vacek

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

Orlando Figueroa

We wanted something different, some once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

Karen Moyer

Some of those golf coaches don't hold back any punches. When they said, 'Man, don't touch a thing, we want a lifetime contract,' I knew they were sincere.

Tom Ducey

Everyone is at almost lifetime best (times).

Gary Strickler

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

John Cory

This is such an amazing feeling. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for some people. For some people, it never happens.

Aly Hinton

Look into the eyes of those on the streets and imagine the lifetime that got them there.

Stacia Robitaille

He had a lifetime and a half. He was everywhere. That's why we decided he would go to Arlington.

Shirley Gritz

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Piet Hein

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and I think this is the most important election in my lifetime.

Billy Baldwin

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Jose Rivera

I thought it would be a great gift to give to my brother to have his name in the book. It's definitely extravagant but it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and he's worth it.

Pam Alexander

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Is a comedy, not a Lifetime movie.

Scott Seomin

I see no likelihood of that happening in my lifetime, sir.

William Beach

For many of these kids, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Russell Schmidt

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

I stand to lose everything I have worked a lifetime for.

Charles Coe

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

Jay Sekulow

Children who appear disabled at 2 or 3 are not necessarily doomed to a lifetime of disability. These young adults were able to achieve much more than we expected.

Dr. Saroj Saigal

He got sick right before districts (Feb. 11), and he did a nice job of being able to drop in the 500. His IM was not his lifetime best, which was disappointing to him because he feels he's an all-around swimmer.

Shari Walling

He has a lifetime appointment. He doesn't have to fear anybody. Once Fallon makes decisions, (Merck) can't say it's some strange judge in some strange place.

John O'quinn

Joe has dedicated his entire lifetime to law enforcement and is recognized as one of the progressive leaders in law enforcement.

Ralph Page

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We firmly believe that a commitment to equality and fairness for all Americans, is a core qualification for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Kevin Cathcart

It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to keep cheering for my school.

Michele Mccoy

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

That was a once-in-a-lifetime team.

Clayton Carpenter

They're real life demonstrations of the biblical adage 'If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach the man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.'

David Koch

It was great to be paired with Tom. It was the experience of a lifetime.

Brian Mcelhinney

All of the boys had lifetime-best swims and all three relays were season-bests.

Brian Dickmann

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Roger Short

Levels like that with benzene, our only concern would be lifetime consumption.

George Pauli

He just understood the true destiny of the movie and what it would do for me. I mean, he's already gotten his Lifetime Achievement Award.

David Carradine

It is a process I only want to do once in a lifetime.

Benjamin Allen

Mr. Lund's lifetime achievement in his profession has benefited our community and many of his fellow professionals.

Todd Christensen

These artifacts and the blessings they bring are for all people. This is such a rare opportunity -- probably never again in my lifetime.

Noel Lee

I'm proud of what all of [the other Greensburg Central Catholic swimmers] did. Everybody had at least one lifetime-best time.

Katie Cutrell

Certainly in my lifetime he's the most influential TV correspondent.

Steve Kroft

This is the opportunity of a lifetime and I can't wait to be one of the first Virgin Galactic customers into space.

Victoria Principal

I've waited a lifetime for a horse like this. I'm going to let him take me to places that I've never been.

Fred Bradley

Wax was a one in a lifetime dog and I don't know if I'll ever see one like him again. His retirement leaves a big hole in the kennel and some big shoes to fill.

Ricardo Pacheco

It is an honor to be chief, ... I am humbled by the men who work here . . . who see more in a day than anyone should see in a lifetime.

James Blanchard

It's hectic and a little crazy sometimes, but for me it's an opportunity of a lifetime. It's more than I could have ever wished for.

Tommy Scrivens

He absolutely knows what he wants. He's very direct and to the point. He is certainly the best GM in my lifetime, and maybe of all time.

Josh Byrnes

It's a lifetime occupation. Happy running everybody.

Branch Brady

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

Bill Owen

You make a lifetime commitment when you go into the weapons program.

Joe Ladish

The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your heart will always draw back to this sacred place. You have gathered to observe a dark day in history.

George Pataki

What a wonderful musician...absolutely the pinnacle of guitar playing in our lifetime.

Brian May

A lot of people have had some type of corticosteroid in their lifetime.

Jerry Siegel

This is beyond the ability of any former city employee to pay for, no matter how much she's saved up over a lifetime.

Nick Hanna

I'd like to see (cancer) cured in my lifetime. We all have children or grandchildren and we'd like to see them live cancer free.

Michele Maffei

In a lifetime, if a guy has three chances to win the Classic, that's a huge accomplishment.

Jay Yelas

This is a break of a lifetime for them.

Kathy Kelly

I would do it again. I learned a lot about myself, and I would do it again. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

David Beatson

Chuck appreciates things that will last a lifetime.

Clark Wolf

It's almost like a once in a lifetime thing. It's almost like a haze. There's a total buzz around campus.

Dale Mast

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

Thurgood Marshall

This will probably be a little bit more expensive in the early years, but over the lifetime, probably quite competitive.

Jim Lea

If started early, this process can really help you feel better, look better and develop safe exercise and eating habits for a lifetime.

Sabrena Newton

I don't even know if I will be able to finish them all in my lifetime.

Linda Nannizzi

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Grantland Rice

It's a chance of a lifetime for us. You might not get here next year or the year after. To get back to the Frozen Four is a big accomplishment for this team. But our focus and our goal is to win this year.

Travis Zajac

It's a huge natural experiment. We're going to have a research agenda for a lifetime.

Stephen Soumerai

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Hallie Cohen

It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.

Bryan Anderson

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine.

Kerry Packer

The chance of seeing that again in may never happen in our lifetime, I believe.

Dennis Nelson

Mel Gibson is a masterful storyteller, and this is the work of his lifetime.

Richard Roeper

We try to promote healthy behavior for a lifetime.

Dr. Goutham Rao

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

Barack Obama

He may be the most conservative president of our lifetime.

Greg Valliere

Never in my lifetime have I seen this much activity.

Mayor Rob Lederer

I've never made a nickel in my lifetime where I wasn't a little nervous getting it.

Paul Azinger

It's just awesome. My friends are just really not into it, but I keep telling them to give it a try. I think it's a once in a lifetime experience.

Nikolas Petrovski

The Role of a Lifetime.

Ryan Reynolds

There are still a lot of questions to be addressed, but we will have three identical cloned brothers we are committed to studying through their lifetime.

Gordon Woods

He saw a lot of the country, but mostly he saw a lot of Colorado. He saw and learned more about places in Colorado in his short lifetime than most people ever do.

John Fielder

Yeah, there was a little bit of jealousy last year. But I was so excited for him. He said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and you'll never forget it.

Marissa Young