Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as… — Ali Smith
When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd… — George Soros
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established — George Soros
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity. — Clarence Thomas
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself… — Roddy Doyle
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never,… — Roland Barthes
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. — Samuel Rutherford
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I… — Ian Fleming
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the… — Victor Hugo
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,… — Ernest Hemingway
Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence. — Graham Hill
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural… — Ban Ki-moon
If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time.… — Jeffrey Sachs
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there… — Anne McCaffrey
Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in… — Manmohan Singh
I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with… — Alex Rodriguez
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is… — Charles Macklin
By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as… — Gary Lockwood
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the… — James Keller
She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I… — Charles Portis
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. — Jim Ramstad
Life is to short to be small. — Benjamin Disraeli

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