Life Spans Quotes

#1. I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

Robin Leach

#2. Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

Caroline Knapp

#3. The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Stephen Hawking

#4. I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Steve Madden

#5. There is no such thing as a successful defense.

George S. Patton

#6. With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

Joey W. Hill

#7. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Steve Maraboli

#8. We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

George R R Martin

#9. except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.

Edward O. Wilson

#10. With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Mariella Frostrup

#11. Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

Arthur C. Clarke

#12. There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.

Frederick Lenz

#13. How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? This
is Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting.

Douglas Coupland

#14. Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

Kate Reardon

#15. A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

Roni Horn

#16. Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#17. I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

Penelope Cruz

#18. Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

Peter Jackson

#19. Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning.

S. Jae-Jones

#20. Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your eighty-something life spans, and that's a best-case scenario, isn't it?

Tosca Lee

#21. The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

Ernest Hello

#22. (...) life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem - as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.

Paul Bloom

#23. Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

#24. Class was like watered down porn today. Vee said

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit. (Guardian interview 2006)

Guillermo Del Toro

#26. Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Candice Bergen

#27. The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Mike McCready

#28. It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

Stephanie Mills

#29. To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

Laurence D. Fink

#30. Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

Anita Borg

#31. Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

Cynthia Kenyon

#32. Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.

Laura Ramirez

#33. By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

Ingrid Newkirk

#34. Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

Fiona Apple