Prolongs Quotes

#1. It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

#2. I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Sarah Bernhardt

#4. If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come.

James Clavell

#5. You know what I think prolongs life?" Harry has said. "Art and Music. Beyond that, it is to have a heart full of love, That is the most important thing".

Neenah Ellis

#6. The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. 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

#8. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. Thus it comes
That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains,
Could bear no produce such as makes us glad,
And whatsoever lives, if shut from food,
Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

Lucretius

#11. 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

#12. Where do I always find enough courage for one last hope? I am the enemy of this indestructible, pitiless hope which prolongs and intensifies all my pain. I would like to lay hold of hope and strangle it once and for all.

Anna Kavan

#13. Any increase in the relative size of government in the economy, therefore, shifts the societal consumption-investment ratio in favor of consumption, and prolongs the depression.

Murray N. Rothbard

#14. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Coco Chanel

#15. In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.

Edouard Leve

#16. It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#17. Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Charles Duhigg

#18. But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#19. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Bob Hope

#20. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#21. Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure.

Coco Chanel

#22. The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard

#23. whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#24. Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

#25. Self-pity is wasted emotion. It merely prolongs whatever trauma you suffered by keeping it alive in your head. Dude, you survived it. Move on.

Karen Marie Moning

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

James L. Papandrea

#27. Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I ... warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration

Pope Benedict XVI

#28. Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong.

Paul Silway

#29. Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Alan Greenspan

#31. As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

Charles Bass

#32. 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

#33. Walking takes longer ... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Edward Abbey

#34. You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#35. In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

Mehmet Murat Ildan