Prolong Quotes

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce

Best, Situation, Patient

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.
Jack London

Time, Live, Trying

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
Christiaan Barnard

Life, Goal, Suffering

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Tom Robbins

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. Ballard

Change, Age, Means

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian Fleming

Trying, Days, Shall

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
George Michael

Political, Vote, Fact

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
Max Stirner

Life, Enjoy, Cannot

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Rich, Poor, Unfair

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
Jim Ramstad

Life, Hope, Give

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

Life, Death, Technology

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.
Jennie Garth

Great, Travel, Moving

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
William J. Mayo

Life, Aim, Ideal

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
Valentina Tereshkova

Done, After, Days

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon

Evil, Seen, Party

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