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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dogs, I had reflected, are lucky to have shorter memories and fewer apprehensions about the future - they know how to enjoy the present.
— Margret Wittmer
Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.
— Paulo Coelho
These Ginnie Maes suck. They get longer [in maturity] when rates go up, and shorter when rates go down, and nobody wants them
— Michael Lewis
They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
— Karen Marie Moning
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
— Wayne Shorter
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
— Epictetus
Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
— Ben Crenshaw
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
— Anonymous
If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it ... better.
— David Auburn
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
— Doug Larson
Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
— Jay Chandrasekhar
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
— Arthur C. Clarke
I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
— Frank Shorter
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
— Charles Wheelan
The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
— Lucy Stone
When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
— Berkeley Breathed
The second half of joy is shorter than the first
— Emily Dickinson
I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
— Calista Flockhart
I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.
— Frank Shorter
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
— John Perry Barlow
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
— Wayne Shorter
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
— Blaise Pascal
I was actually going to law school in 1972.
— Frank Shorter
I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.
— Allison Janney
So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.
— James Howe
For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.
— Aporva Kala
Life is short but heartache is shorter
— Tyler Perry
He was about an inch shorter than me, about half the width of me, and certainly not as good looking. Not everyone can be me. Who
— J.R. Rain
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip.
— Stephanie Kallos
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
— Brian Tracy
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
— Robert Breault
Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity. — Emily Dickinson
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity. — Emily Dickinson
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.
— David Twohy
She looked like a shorter, wider Hillary Clinton, but with the posture and attitude of someone fifty-eight hours into a sixty-hour workweek.
— J. Ryan Stradal
Music is interior decoration.
— Wayne Shorter
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
— Joel Salatin
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
— Christian Rudder
It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.
— Wayne Shorter
We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska
I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.
— Agyness Deyn
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
I'm bigger than the typical model, and I'm shorter, too. I really can't say why it's all worked for me.
— Suki Waterhouse
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
— Austin O'Malley
No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
— Wayne Shorter
Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.
— Jen Hatmaker
Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.
— Sarah MacLean
When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
— Frank Shorter
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
— C. Walton Lillehei
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
— Albert Einstein
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
— Frank Shorter
A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.
— Tom McClintock
When writing emails, the rule is, the shorter and more effective your email, the better.
— Jason Luong
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
— Nancy Kress
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The happier the moment the shorter.
— Pliny The Elder
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
— Samuel Johnson
The shorter the visit, the quicker you'll be invited back.
— C.J. Langenhoven
The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.
— Simon Hobday
Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.
— Frank Shorter
Only the young can be alone freely. The time is shorter now for company, And sitting by a lamp more often brings Not peace, but other things.
— Philip Larkin
Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
— Salli Richardson
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
— Winston Churchill
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
Years are like candy bars ... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.
— Charles M. Schulz
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.
— Nick Thune
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
— Frank Shorter
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
— Frank Shorter
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
— Petrarch
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
— Robert Quillen
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.
— Sarah Brightman
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
— Vita Sackville-West
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
— Frank Shorter
Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.
— Frank Shorter
A drink is shorter than a tale
— Omar Khayyam
When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.
— Frank Shorter
His first fall, but the trip was much shorter on a bat. Before he knew
— Suzanne Collins
Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.
— Robert Breault