Quotes for All
When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was – people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they … Read more
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself F. Scott Fitzgerald
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo. Donna Brazile
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. Bill Vaughan
They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven’t proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven’t seen the stats on that yet. Bill Hicks
Somebody said to me the other day, ‘You know, it’s really senseless, what you’re doing. There’s always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you’re just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].’ My answer is, ‘Okay, then, let’s start with your grandchild. Don’t buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don’t take … Read more
Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It’s a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it’s even more necessary to keep failing. Andrew Sullivan
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly. Albert Einstein
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper