Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.
I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.
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.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
My career could have been prolonged for longer
. . . . chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.
By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!