Long Life Quotes - Page 4

• A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

  Karel Capek

  Short Life, Men, Long

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• Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

  Douglas Coupland

  Senior, Long, Toasters

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• I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

  Jean Ingelow

  Prayer, Long, Thank God

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• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Laughter, Book, Inspiration

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• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Men, Father Son

  "The bomb and the opportunity" by Henry L. Stimson, Harper's Magazine, March 1946.

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Practice, Differences, Long

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• After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

  Jane Smiley

  Life, Summer, Winter

  Jane Smiley (2011). “The Greenlanders”, p.218, Anchor

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• Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Laughing, Secret

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• Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

  Barbara Cooper

  Grief, Loss, Deep Love

  "Got a problem? Just ask Grandma" by Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

  Tom of Finland

  Dream, Long, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

  Charles Benbrook

  Long, Levels, Pesticides

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

  David Baldacci

  Life, Essence, Long

  David Baldacci (2002). “The Winner”, p.473, Hachette UK

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• Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.

  Gavin de Becker

  Long, Needs, Arbitrary

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• I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

  George William Curtis

  Faith, Peace, Heart

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• Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

  George Iles

  Fall, Science, Wind

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• The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

  Luise Rainer

  Doctors, Long, Secret

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Struggle, Creativity, Survival

  Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday

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• Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

  Pope Francis

  Fashion, Believe, Commitment

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teenager, Thinking, Long

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• The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Wish, Getting Older

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Long, Resistance, Life Is

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• When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Rights

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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