Long Life Quotes - Page 15

• They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody.

  Harper Lee

  Strong, Real, Good Luck

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Short Life, Fate, Blessing

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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• You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

  Rutger Hauer

  Beautiful, Two, Long

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• What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

  Publilius Syrus

  Long, Evil, Wish

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• The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Years, Careers

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• The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Justice, Diversity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

  George Santayana

  Long, May, Honey

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Strength, Short Life, Acceptance

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Art, Opportunity

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• If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

  Kris Carr

  Shelves, Shelf Life, Ifs

  Interview with Sophie Uliano, sophieuliano.com.

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• The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Years, Numbers

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• My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

  Carol Leifer

  Father, Long, Guy

  Carol Leifer (2009). “When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror”, p.3, Villard

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• A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

  Jack Black

  Death, Short Life, Long

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• Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

  Chanakya

  Grief, Son, Fire

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• I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

  Will Arnett

  Dream, Long, Wife

  "Stars React To Emmy Nominations". www.accessonline.com. July 06, 2006.

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• Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

  Aesop

  Long, Toil, Ease

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• The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

  Michelle Shocked

  Long, Secret, Life Is

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• For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

  Anatole France

  Long, People, Majority

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Strong, Home

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.20

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• Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Ideas, Issues

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• Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

  Steve Fowler

  Long, Enough, Caught

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• What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Long, Community

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