#long life

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life. ↗

— Nick Cassavetes

#daughter #diagnosed #disease #four #had

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#cinema #continents #cultures #diverse #greatest

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#appeal #appeals #everyone #getting #getting old

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#inevitable #life #long #long life #outlive

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#contemplation #had #his #known #life

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#ending #frighten #i #i can #life

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

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