#lifetime

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#child #could #destined #different #doing

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#course #die #draw #end #everybody

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. ↗

— Edward Grey

#europe #going #lamps #lifetime #lit

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime. ↗

— William S. Hart

#during #i #lifetime #provided #son

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#humans #i #i think #lifetime #like

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#because #becomes #courts #dangers #edward

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #been #legend #lifetime

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#been #by the time #company #culmination #decision

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#connect #developed #fiction #find #follow