Quotes of: Prolong Keyword

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

The Yearning

Endurance is knowing you're going to die every night. Faith is believing there is a tomorrow. Hope is prolonged torture.

Jeremy Limn

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Gordon W. Allport

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

Elayne Boosler

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.

The Adulterous Woman

Sometimes, we get so used to pain we begin to enjoy it, then we do all we can to prolong it.

A Bouquet of Dilemma

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Paul Engle

Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.

Spiritual Blueprint: How We Live, Work, Love, Play, and Pray

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Ram Dass

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

Catherine Helen Spence

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Suzanne Fields

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Albert Einstein

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Max Stirner

The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

Magdi Yacoub

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

John Quincy Adams

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

George Michael

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Jim Morrison

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London