Quotes About Longevity

The health risk of poverty turns out to be a huge effect, the biggest risk factor there is in all of behavioral medicine—in other words, if you have a bunch of people of the same gender, age, and ethnicity and you want to make some predictions about who is going to live how long, the single most useful fact to know is each person's SES.

Our nights are filled with worries about a different class of diseases; we are now living well enough and long enough to slowly fall apart.

Have you ever wondered where the idea of retirement at the age of 65 came from? I'll tell you where: Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia, in 1889. Actually, Bismarck's government: At the time, the life expectancy of the average Prussian was about 45. Today, so many are living well into their 80s and 90s that the same promise might well bankrupt the federal government within the next generation.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive? Unlike

And while I am glad some people have become richer and richer, I caution them that in the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

He truly believes in pay raises based on loyalty and longevity.

The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones," Louisa said. "You'll probably last till you're about sixty.

Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night.

Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you. - Jean-Claude

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years," I said.

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

I truly expect that Vittorio will find us before the year is out. But sometimes it is better to live a short good life, than an evil long one.   Most Sincerely Yours, Gwen The

But if you survived melancholia and rotting lungs it was possible to live long in this valley.

Most sane human beings' chances of being alive in a thousand years' time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.