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I don't punish myself. Life's too short. — Keeley Hawes

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. — Jim Butcher

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing. — Frank Robinson

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light. — Shaun Hick

How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing — Macedonio Fernandez

Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short. — Charles F. Glassman

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity. — Omar Bongo

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled. — Martin Short

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb? — Aaron Swartz

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

There's a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus "Leave me the fuck alone" comes out as "Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point. — David Sedaris

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all. — Kim Kardashian

Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. — Marcus Aurelius

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all. — Abbi Glines

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. — P.G. Wodehouse

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means. — Haruki Murakami

We're still looking for the Messiah, so I usually invite myself over to someone's house who's found him. — Dan Salerno

Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side — Alexandre Dumas

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

If you love a person, you can forgive anything. — Herbert Marshall

When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God — CM Punk

Life's too short to wait to read. — Evan Williams

The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare

Love is so short," he quotes solemnly, "forgetting takes forever. — Serena Grey

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. — Barton Gellman

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. — Cecily McMillan

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany — Amy Hill Hearth

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. — Clare Short

The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.] — Sallust

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that. — Coolio

That's the rub with dogs. We pack a lifetime of love into a too-short span of time. We have to watch them die. We have to let them go. — Meg Donohue

Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI. — Robert Rolih

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist. — Gregor Collins

Hate will devour you. Anger, no matter how righteous it feels, is a straight, short path to hell. — J.T. Geissinger

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. — Eckhart Tolle

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore. — Orson Welles

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term. — Randy Pausch

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. — Daphne Du Maurier

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul? — Sebastian Barry

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it. — Paulo Coelho

Stiles doesn't even know how short of a leash he's on, because he never even tests it. — 1001cranes

Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression — Andy Lindley

In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, — Anonymous

You're as strong as your resolutions! — Israelmore Ayivor

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. — Lucian

Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases. — Gabriele Wohmann

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established — George Soros

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

It's better to love a short ... — Martin Short

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap. — Jim Coleman

Life is short and love is over in the morning. — Ville Valo

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

Short form media is reductionist by nature. — Jon Krakauer

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream. — E.B. White

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite. — Eben Pagan

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. — George Orwell

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. — Hugh Hefner

Short on money, long on hope — Kim Edwards

Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Quentin Reynolds

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle

Life's too short to lay in wait. A soul is meant to love and love is all there is. — Kate McGahan

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot

Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores. — Jonathan Heatt

If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so. — Frances Hardinge

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. — Keith Henson

To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination. — Wes Fesler

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

Life's too short to hate. — Tito Ortiz

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. — Ron Carlson

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. — Samuel Rutherford

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds. — Terry Pratchett

You know, speaking from experience, I can tell you that there's no aphrodisiac more potent than Watergate-themed cabaret music. — Martin Short

Life's too short. I'm not! — Kristin Chenoweth

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. — Stephen Greco

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

You'll live your life a lot happier if you stop trying to be perfect. Do your best for Jesus. When you fall short, He'll carry you. — Karen Kingsbury

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore. — Anne Bishop

So before you decide you can't forgive her, ask yourself if you want to live without her. We're only here for a short time, man. Don't waste it. — K.J. Bell

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. — Paula Creamer

Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust. — Abraham Clark

Life, it's a long road but a short ride. — Paul Carafotes

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. — Edward Furlong

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her. — Eliza Doolittle

Life was too short to settle for someone else's dreams, I had decided. — Amanda Cerreto

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best. — Stephen King

How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death. — Hannah More

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat. — Walter Lippmann

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead. — Christopher Fowler

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. — Frank Tuttle

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening. — Arthur Smith