Top 1200 Life Span Quotes & Sayings

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Attention span. What are they talking about? If it's good, it'll drag you in.

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

Everyone eats all kinds of food in Kerala. Kerala is one of the states where life span is the highest; and lifespan is closely linked to food habits. In Kerala, people are generally non-vegetarians. If it was bad for health, life expectancy would not have been so good.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.

It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Every problem has a limited life span.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average life span increases.