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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
I stop short of being a workaholic.
— Jim Davis
A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
— Thomas Watson
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
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
Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.
— Chris Hardwick
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
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
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
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
My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack.
— Jonathan Maberry
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
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— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.
— E.B. White
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
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
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
— Daniel Woodrell
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
