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5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams
There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come… — Tiger Woods
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal.… — Nigel Lawson
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The… — John Beddington
Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes… — Chris Huhne
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day. — Richard Crashaw
My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking,… — Jose Mujica
Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long. — Kenneth E. Boulding
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without… — Martin Luther
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows… — Ludwig von Mises
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period. — John Donne
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short… — Hartman Rector, Jr.
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it… — David Whyte
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to… — Aelred of Rievaulx
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. — Iris Murdoch
A good horse makes short miles. — George Eliot
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis.… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for… — Matt Groening
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short… — Nicole Kidman
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. — Edward Abbey

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