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Quotes About Prolong

Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
~ Virginia Postrel
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~ Red Smith
Extend your vacation whenever possible.
~ A.D. Posey
he can put off knowing what he already knows. He can prolong the moment of irrational hope that maybe some sliver of yesterday's world is still intact.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
~ Dan Quisenberry
They do not live but linger.
~ Robert Burton
But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them;
~ Robert Charles Wilson
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
~ William James Mayo
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
~ Suzanne Fields
I was thinking what everyone is thinking all of the time: How can I make this last just a little bit longer?
~ Lisa Lutz
Prescription, n.: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Aligning what you do with who you are requires commitment, effort, and perseverance. But the rewards are well worth it. Not only will it enhance the quality of your life, it may even prolong it.
~ Lauren Mackler
Discover what will destroy life, and you are a great man! — what will prolong it, and you are an imposter! Discover some invention in machinery that will make the rich more rich and the poor more poor, and they will build you a statue! Discover some mystery in art that will equalise physical disparities, and they will pull down their own houses to stone you!
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Sometimes, proof is just another word to prolong suffering
~ Malcolm Gladwell
But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
~ Amy Tan
I wasn't enjoying the conversation that much. I didn't want to prolong it. It is the sort of man-to-woman infight that I try whenever possible to ascribe to premenstrual tension. I like the theory, but unfortunately in this case I happened to know that it didn't account for Klara, and of course it leaves unresolved at any time the question of how to account for me.
~ Frederik Pohl
It was typical of him that he lacked the taste to make a final exit. He spent too long at his farewells, chatting in the doorway, letting in the cold.
~ Anne Tyler
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
~ Arthur Bryant
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
~ Bill Hicks
I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
~ Star Trek
I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.
~ Michael Chabon
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche