Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a… — Mel Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — Phillips Brooks
Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration. — Corrine Brown
Life is too short to be miserable. — Rita Mae Brown
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. — Edward Albee
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. — Bill Bryson
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. — Peabo Bryson
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe… — James Buchan
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. — Madeleine Albright
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books… — John Burroughs
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Bush
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need… — Buzz Aldrin
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — Lord Byron
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:… — Christopher Alexander
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is… — James Callaghan
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. — James Cameron
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as… — Jane Campion
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part… — Jane Campion

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