Quotes About Prolonging

#1. We arrived in Ulm just after the honeymoon, the moving there only prolonging it. Having slept that glorious jet-lag sleep right into evening on our first day, we took a walk through the streets of our new city, laughing aloud at our good fortune. How could we be living here?

Megan Rich

#2. I don't believe in prolonging agonies," said Oser. "Rather than watch you enspell the rest of my fleet man by man - while I still possess a fleet to offer - I understand the Dendarii Mercenaries are looking for recruits." It

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

Emily Thorne

#4. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

Gwenn Wright

#5. What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

A.J. Darkholme

#6. Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.

Marcel Proust

#7. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#9. In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

David Blunkett

#10. F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Mason Cooley

#11. Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Miguel De Unamuno

#12. CONSULTING: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

Justin Sewell

#13. The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Jacqueline Carey

#15. Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

Kamila Shamsie

#16. The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

Robert M. Price

#17. Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.

Jonah Goldberg

#19. 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

#20. Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Niall Ferguson

#21. This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.

Erik Larson

#22. In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Paul Lafargue

#23. Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

James Madison

#24. The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abraham Kuyper

#25. If we spend little time in REM sleep one night, our brain will compensate by prolonging that stage of sleep the next night. It doesn't take a huge leap to assume that the brain considers this time important.

David K. Randall

#26. What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

Rita Mae Brown

#27. Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.

Jozy Altidore

#28. Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

Joseph Addison

#29. Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

Andrew Sullivan

#30. If you are a "now-person", you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a "now-person" and do it now!

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.

George K. Simon

#32. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

#33. Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#34. I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.

Walter White

#35. I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.

Michel De Montaigne

#36. She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

F Scott Fitzgerald