Long Life Quotes - Page 8

• For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Long, Progress

  " The Guardian profile: Dan Brown" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2004.

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• [Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

  Emma Goldman

  Long, Economic, Conception

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.55, PM Press

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• I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

  Sarah Schulman

  Long, People, Accountability

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Long, Eating, Good Health

  Elsie De Wolfe (1914). “The House in Good Taste”

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• One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Appreciation, Expression, Joy

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• But touch me, and no minister so sore.
  Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
  Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
  Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
  And the sad burthen of some merry song.

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Long, Sacred

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.128

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• I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

  Eva LaRue

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Death, Heart, Ties

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• It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

  Bill Vaughan

  Doctors, Dying, Duty

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• For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Long, Community

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• How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

  Harry S. Truman

  Morning, Two, Long

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• As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Tasks, May

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.124

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• Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Age, Pathways

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.74

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• A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teaching, Eye, Wrinkles

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• When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

  Marva Collins

  Teaching, Learning, Long

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• Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

  Harold Lewis

  Successful, Long, Global Warming

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• Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Long, Shows

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• I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

  George Brandis

  Reading, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

  Pope Francis

  Sadness, Long, Joy

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• The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

  Robin Williams

  Ideas, Long, Tasks

  "Robin Williams Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

  Elvis Presley

  Long, Feels, I Can

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• Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time - courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies - in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.

  Pierre Hadot

  Long, People, Joy

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 264), 2001.

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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Practice, Long

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Long, Serious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.273

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