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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• Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Mistake, Long, Choices

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.418, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

  Maria Callas

  Long, Imagination, House

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• It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

  Roger Dawson

  Life, Long, Important

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• My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Bridges, Long

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• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Truth, Mean

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• I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

  Chelsea Handler

  Long, Effort, Shapes

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• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Long, Whole

  Broadcast speech (as Princess Elizabeth) to the Commonwealth from Cape Town, 21 April 1947, in 'The Times' 22 April 1947

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• In Israel, death has no dominion over them With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Israel, Long, People

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• Tips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would... keep Y O U N G

  Edgar Cayce

  Sweet, Long, Friendly

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• I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

  Brian Eno

  Believe, Self Confidence, Keys

  "Singing: The Key To A Long Life" by Brian Eno, www.npr.org. November 23, 2008.

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• Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

  Jeanne Calment

  Thinking, Long, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.

  Susan Griffin

  Memories, Lying, Hands

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• Study is a life long pursuit.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Long, Study

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• Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Self, Discipline, Long

  Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.45, Tuttle Publishing

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• ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Baby, Prayer

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• Beauty is a life-long evolution.

  Bobbi Brown

  Long, Evolution

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• Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

  Chip Kidd

  Long, Life Is, Assignments

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Learners: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

  Abu Abbas

  Long, People, Wish

  "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.

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• When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.

  Loung Ung

  Brother, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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