Quotes About Longevity

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

There is no point in appearing in just a few episodes. If I do a show on television, it won't be for a few episodes only.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who bought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities -- their brute persistence.

It was like there had been a lot of food on a plate in front of us, and we ate it all really quickly, and then there was nothing left. Maybe that's how couples stay together: they're not greedy. They know what they have in front of them has to last a long time, so they kind of pick at it. I hope it's not like that, though. I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.

Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been married. In the end, I am reduced to asking them, in a joking sort of way, for the secret of their success; I was only saving time, because I think they would have told me anyway.

This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long.

He was beginning to wonder whether June's facility, and their shared interest, might serve them better in the long run than a passionate sexual relationship that would eventually die on them.

It's not just lifespan that varies with free-radical leak, health span does

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.

That married and dead aren't the same. We were married sixty-seven years before he passed, and the both of us were free to look all we wanted. Touching, now? That's when married and dead are the same.

meant. You said he'd lived a long, beautiful, generous life. And the fates had let him slip out of it lovingly. It helped, in that awful

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

Niemand kennt die komplizierten Abkommen, die zwei Leute miteinander aushandeln, um länger als die ersten zehn Minuten verheiratet zu bleiben.

Viruses wanted to live long enough to multiply and share themselves with the world.)

I take it this means that you had good news from the doctor? She says I shall live to be a hundred. And what's the good news?

It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.

She was sure he had claimed a hundred and one years at his last party. He was only half that, which meant he was the oldest slave anyone on the two Randall plantations had ever met. Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. Nothing left for the world to show you but the latest incarnations of cruelty.

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land.

death by a thousand cuts to be drawn out over a period of years not months.

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.