Quotes About Life Expectancy

#1. On your birthday today, don't
Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
Trust me, you'll be depressed.

John Walter Bratton

#2. Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Richard Carmona

#3. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

Quentin Bryce

#4. [...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. There is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

Jacob Sullum

#7. Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind's average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#8. A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome's todger.

Thaddeus White

#9. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

George Carlin

#10. I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Ron Chernow

#11. Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Julie Bishop

#12. When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.

Katherine Valdez

#13. Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is
how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Dan Buettner

#14. with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.

Christiane Northrup

#15. SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#16. As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.

Bill Maris

#17. But even if the average life expectancy continued to increase by one year with each passing year, it would take forever for people to live forever, so probably no one would ever see it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world ... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live

Donald Tsang

#19. Having a life expectancy is just part of being self-entitled

Josh Stern

#20. Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

George Gamow

#21. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

Tony Abbott

#22. The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be - so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.

Jean Chatzky

#23. He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Terry Pratchett

#24. More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease is still spreading, if more slowly than before.

Peter Singer

#25. The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

Frankie Boyle

#26. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy. A

Terry Pratchett

#27. In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

Jim Yong Kim

#28. Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

Adrian Tan

#29. Some researchers consider lack of exercise to be a greater risk factor for decreased life expectancy than the combined risks posed by cigarette smoking, obesity, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

Rich Snyder DO

#30. You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.

Eli Roth

#31. An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Fred Allen

#32. The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Buzz Aldrin

#33. Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

Grace Napolitano

#34. It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

Richard Lamm

#35. Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The

Michael Pollan

#36. We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

Ken Buck

#37. The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Mike Krzyzewski

#38. The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Moby

#39. When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life - my mom most of all.

Moby

#40. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

Neal Stephenson

#41. Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.)

Jonathan Safran Foer

#42. thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

James Rollins

#43. Meanwhile, the reality is that living longer in our ever-more-unequal society is very much a class thing: life expectancy at age 65 has risen a lot among the affluent, but hardly at all in the bottom half of the wage distribution, that is, among those who need Social Security most.

Anonymous

#44. More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Alex Tabarrok

#45. In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#46. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer.

Terry Pratchett

#47. The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

Virginia Foxx

#48. In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)

Robert Whitaker

#49. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.

David Marin

#50. Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek

Norman Mailer

#51. Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.

Nicola Sturgeon

#52. Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

#53. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Doug Larson

#54. Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Jack Kingston

#55. Rider/Host relationship is not always one-sided. In fact, many benefits are extended to the Host as well. It can survive up to double the life expectancy of a normal human (between 150 and 200 years), depending on a number of

Pete Kahle

#56. Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

P. J. O'Rourke

#57. It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Terry Pratchett

#58. As medical care has improved, life expectancy has increased - on average, in the United States, by some two years between 1990 and 2000. But for the poorest group of Americans there has been no progress, and for poor women life expectancy has actually been declining.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#59. Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

Johnny Vegas

#60. For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

Gloria Steinem

#61. Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history.
What can and will we do?

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#62. They say that life expectancy is higher for right-handed people than for left-handed.

Jo Nesbo

#63. Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Lennox

#64. An Australian study of more than 12,000 adults estimated that every single hour spent watching television after the age of 25 decreased the viewer's life expectancy by 22 minutes.

Tom Rath

#65. One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#66. It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

Leonard Hayflick

#67. It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy

Matthew S. Williams

#68. I wanted to slug him. The desire to smash that beautiful face was physical. It tightened my shoulders, made my arms ache. But I knew better. You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy. I

Laurell K. Hamilton

#69. The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#70. Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

Ray Kurzweil

#71. The average life expectancy for a black man in an American city is something like twenty-three very short years. The reality of that had never fully kicked in before, but it did that night. And I thought, hell, I'm at risk just walking around.

Suzanne Brockmann

#72. it was said to be 'hardly in the power of liquor to affect Dr Webster's understanding or his limbs'. Yet no one was more sober when it came to calculations of life expectancy.

Niall Ferguson

#73. I imagine, in the future, life expectancy is long and they use crazy plastic surgery. Who the hell knows what's going on?

Elizabeth Banks

#74. Japan. So successful was the Japanese 'welfare superpower' that by the 1970s life expectancy in Japan had become the longest in the world. But that, combined with a falling birth rate, has produced the world's oldest society, with more than 21 per cent of the population already over the age of 65.

Niall Ferguson

#75. A housefly has a longer life expectancy than the manager of a Premier League team.

Alex Ferguson

#76. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Dean Koontz

#77. I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more
much, much more.

Melody Carlson

#78. As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Richard J. Foster

#79. In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee's blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

Matthew Desmond

#80. Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.

Adrian Tan

#81. There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Dean Koontz

#82. Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Gerald Massey

#83. The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#84. If you are presently facing significant challenges in your life, trust in the Lord! Be an aggressive responder who lives with alert expectancy!

Richard Blackaby

#85. God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That's why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, According to your faith ... be it done to you.

Joel Osteen

#86. In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Martin Luther