If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives including mine.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

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.

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.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone for someone pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us as a civilized society to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

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

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.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.