Short Quotes
5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors
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The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
— Margaret Gatty
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I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.
— Cissy Houston
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I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small…
— Daryl Hannah
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there…
— Unknown Author
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'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all…
— Carlos Castaneda
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We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which…
— Patrick Murphy
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Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.
— Catherine of Genoa
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement…
— Dogen
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
— Euripides
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Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you…
— Joel Osteen
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for…
— Albert Einstein
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we…
— Vince Lombardi
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the…
— Jim Elliot
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer…
— Confucius
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We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
— Brandon Sanderson
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The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.
— Tony Dungy
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It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an,…
— Abu Nu`aym
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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we…
— Amory Lovins
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