Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
Noam ChomskyActor’s life is very long.
Jackie ChanOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyA man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles BukowskiI intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven WrightMy grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny YoungmanMy grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.
Clint EastwoodPeople think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
J. ColeYou know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
John KennedyWhen we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John RuskinFortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.
Tom BradyIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam ChomskyI don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovIt is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas JeffersonWork as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinYou get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
Mark ZuckerbergI think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.
Tom BradyHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightBooks are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas AdamsI’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
Dolly PartonI want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
Barack ObamaA company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.
Jeff BezosI do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWe have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry PratchettNeil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
Dave GrohlI don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie ChanYou know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
Dave GrohlBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonMillions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.
Robert KiyosakiI have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.
Michelle ObamaWhatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
Alexander the GreatIt would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint EastwoodI want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
EminemBlessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert HooverThere’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.
Joe BidenMost women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.
Angelina JolieGetting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho MarxThe quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. RockefellerHow many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques RousseauI’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
Mr. TI try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.
Tom BradyYou see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
Paul AusterWhat I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
Vivienne WestwoodHeaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao TzuThe longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur SchopenhauerTaxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.
John KennedyWe are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
Richard M. NixonPart of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthurHow incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LewisThe word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur SchopenhauerI figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad AliWith regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph AddisonI was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.
Tom BradyA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. ForbesI intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho MarxI don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
Jackie ChanYou can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody AllenA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl Jung