#longevity

If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die? ↗

— Damon Knight

#longevity #death

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#longevity #morality #philosophy #sherlock-holmes

I owe it all to chocolate and young men. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#men

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you. ↗

— Joan Blondell

#audience #beauty #i #itself #know

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#drop #i #i can #know #longevity

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#career #climb #gradual #had #i

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? ↗

— Leon Kass

#bad #been #century #could #good

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#beautiful #dignified #living #living thing #longevity

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age. ↗

— Cat Cora

#believe #children #crucial #early #early age

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#athletes #because #burnt #calendar #career