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Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. — Robert Breault

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night. — Thomas A. Edison

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

I stop short of being a workaholic. — Jim Davis

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time. — Theocritus

A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films. — Emily St. John Mandel

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die. — Galen

Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort. — Thomas Watson

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

It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it. — Seneca.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary — Hugh Lofting

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. — Maile Meloy

I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell. — J.A. Willoughby

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank

He thought I'd be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I'd consistently fallen short of expectations. — Gillian Flynn

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. — Robert Breault

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

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

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat. — Vernor Vinge

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye! — Jon Jones

Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. — David Brooks

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information. — Chris Hardwick

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. — Amory Lovins

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

Leonard had let them go alone with the young boy who Ali was now convinced, was a couple falafel's short of a picnic — L.R. Currell

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

At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon. — Michael Chabon

It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep. — Siobhan Davis

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. — Lucille Ball

A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term. — Lisa Banks

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

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. — Robert Genn

take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire — Theresa Shea

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

My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack. — Jonathan Maberry

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures ... It's a fun game, — Jim Cramer

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life. — Elizabeth Berg

If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. — Edgar Allan Poe

The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel? — Gautama Buddha

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing. — David Copperfield

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. — Mark Twain

Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway. — Pat Dye

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short. — Eleanor Clift

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca — Seneca.

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job. — Caroline Myss

He leaned across the desk and produced a short-barrel revolver from one of the drawers. "One problem. Six solutions. — Matt Hults

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. — Cher

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages. — Sarah Manguso

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas

Out of the motorcar (I learned later that this majestic vehicle was a Ford V8) stepped a short, thickset man wearing a smart suit. — Nelson Mandela

He was not a big deal. He looked short. I was sure his hair made Oliver jealous, though, so I snapped a picture of him and sent it, — Claire Contreras

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders — Woodrow Wilson

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
You are more lovely and milder,
Rough winds shake the sweet buds of May,
A summer is way to short. — William Shakespeare

They get a glimpse of red lips under a short veil, and exquisite little feet. — Leo Tolstoy

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants. — Ruth Ozeki

And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars. — Anonymous

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat. — Peter Watts

No, I wasn't. I was just thinking how sad it is that for such a good-looking guy, you're a few crayons short of a rainbow." His — Laurann Dohner

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Yu Cao

I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon. — Steven Wright

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on this short list (of goals to focus on). — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be. — Taylor Mali

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. — Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde

Life ... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive. — Cecelia Ahern

I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto. — Keir Gilchrist

When a loved one is sick the days are long, but the years are short."
From Hour of the Bees — Lindsay Eager

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. — Neil Gaiman

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word. — Bill Johnson

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile. — Veronica Roth

I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school. — Tahyna Tozzi

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' — Daniel Woodrell

I used to have a terrific flat stomach but now it's kind of blown out after two giant babies used it as a short-term apartment. — Amy Poehler

One spark short of a bonfire. — Angelika Rust

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body. — Richard Powers

A very short burst of thought was enough to convince Abdullah that his situation, despite the chains, would be very much worse if he became a toad. — Diana Wynne Jones

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you. — Kevin Rahm

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man. — George R R Martin

In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised — Moshe Feldenkrais

His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, off-setting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, even in the firelight. — Sarah J. Maas

So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it. — Seneca.

I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders. — Eoin Colfer