Long Life Quotes - Page 9

• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Heart, Names

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Ideas

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

  David Starr Jordan

  Life, Long, Charity

  David Starr Jordan (1896). “The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education”

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

  Joan Robinson

  Teacher, Errors, Long

  "Economic Philosophy". Book by Joan Robinson, p. 79 (2006 edition), 1962.

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• Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Failure, Eye

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• Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

  Tom Cochrane

  Life, Night, Long

  Song: Life is a Highway, Album: Mad Mad World

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• I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Long, Nine, Facts

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1089, Open Road Media

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• I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.

  Robert Wagner

  Pain, Lying, Play

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• If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Rome, Long, Wish

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.

  Jill Stein

  Winning, Order, Long

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

  John Mayer

  Long, Age, Term

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• Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

  Rachel Martin

  Mother, Long, Saint

  "Pope Francis Canonizes Mother Teresa In Vatican Ceremony". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2016.

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• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Organization, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• If you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect of one of Australia's largest ever coal projects with a very, very long life span being developed and reviving the regional economy. And you saw the Greens in particular doing their little best to stop it happening.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Australia, Long

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

  Donald Trump

  Good Life, Long, People

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

  Al Yankovic

  New York, Nice, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

  Satish Kumar

  Children, Destiny, Giving

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

  William Congreve

  Funny, Men, Play

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Bonduca”

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Blessing, Men

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• Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

  Robert A. Burton

  Angel, Men, Long

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• Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

  Jeanne Calment

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
  and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.

  Brian Regan

  Dream, Long, Different

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• You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.

  Jake Kasdan

  Writing, Tv Shows, Long

  "Exclusive: Director Jake Kasdan Talks BAD TEACHER, FRIENDS WITH KIDS, THE NEW GIRL and Dewey Cox". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 21, 2011.

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