Short Quotes

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And ...

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated ef...

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's...

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for ...

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short wh...

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thi...

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of ...

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex...

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they h...

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds a...

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peac...

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and ne...

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are...

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short s...

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going t...

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King ...

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, mater...

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to...

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm j...

I am all for the short and merry life.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and ...

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true an...

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody ...

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. B...

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Wom...

Childhood is a short season.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. Sh...

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learn...

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but ...

Life is short, the art long.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowled...

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all kno...

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling th...

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyo...

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want th...

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life i...

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheeri...

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her ...

It was a dark story.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a...

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a t...

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate ...

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've alway...

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any m...

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations ...

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

In short, software is eating the world.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and hu...

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly inc...

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you c...

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ...

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artist...

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anythi...

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a ph...

If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The ...

It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.”“Wh...

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far sho...

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissio...

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...