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

    Church   Austerity   Poor  
  • I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

    Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
  • 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.

    "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "End Times ", www.imdb.com. 2008–2013.
  • In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

    Men   Temptation   Might  
  • 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.

    "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ch. 2, 1969.
  • I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

    Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
  • 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.

    Death   Mean   Science  
    Essays and Soliloquies 'Arbitrary Reflections'
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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

    Art   Play   Echoes  
    Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. General index”, p.535
  • Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

  • 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.

    War   Mean   Giving  
    "Of Their Choosing". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. September 20, 2007.
  • She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.416, eBookIt.com
  • The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

    1903 Man and Superman, 'Maxims for Revolutionists: Beauty and Happiness'.
  • Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

    Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black
  • Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

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

    Childhood   Joy   Promise  
  • They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

    Life   Smoking   Comedian  
    "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.
  • 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 (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

  • I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

    Death   Done   Want  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.95, Princeton University Press
  • There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

    Lust   Desire   Made  
    Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.91, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
  • 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.

  • Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  • The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.

    Life   Mean   Science  
  • 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.

    Want   Rust   Body  
  • British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

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

  • 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.

  • The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

    Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
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