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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
— Robert Burns
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
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
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
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
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
— Simon Raven
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
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
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
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
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
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
And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.
— Anonymous
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
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.
— Susan Mitchell
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
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
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
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
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
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
