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

Some wee short hour ayont the twal. — Robert Burns

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

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo

I guess short films have a bright future ... The advantage is budget. — Anurag Kashyap

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day. — Rachel Zoe

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. — William Empson

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson

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 step between genius and insanity is very short. — Albert Einstein

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

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

Long story short: I don't know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes. — Antonio Garcia Martinez

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

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My — Ruskin Bond

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away, — Evan Currie

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

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. — Simon Raven

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

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

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

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

The weekends are too short for sleep! — Bryant A. Loney

Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it. — Chris Cagle

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots. — Imogen Poots

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. — Joe Abercrombie

Life is short, and the Tour de France long. — Giles Smith

In the short run, the big windfall winners ... have been the Islamists. — Michael McFaul

The only way to know life is living it. — John Northcutt Young

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know. — Cate Kennedy

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life. — Denis Waitley

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

As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig — David Eddings

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

Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations. — Jon Feltheimer

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

Granted, she was obviously one lick away from riding the short bus — Tara Sivec

If the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Megan. — Nicholas Sparks

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan

You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.' — David Letterman

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. — Stuart Haddon

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. — Clare Short

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt. — Tim Wise

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

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams

Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. — Mahatma Gandhi

Why would I draw the short straw? — Kresley Cole

I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it ... — John Geddes

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short. — Susan Mitchell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression — Andy Lindley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer. — Duane Michals

Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book. — Michael Lewis

Live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted — Janette Oke

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

Mountains clothed in snow
Robed in white against blue skies
Mirrored in the lake. — Timothy Salter

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process. — Mariana Mazzucato

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

I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago, — Jules Verne

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. — Hillary Clinton

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest! — Bill Watterson

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. — Perry Christie

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term. — Richard Leakey

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins

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

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

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

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