Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already… — Daniel Gilbert
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album. — Daniel Gilbert
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before… — Unknown Author
If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have… — Mark Zuckerberg
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means,… — George Bernard Shaw
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you… — Alice Munro
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air… — Stephen Spender
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for… — Tim Berners-Lee
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet. — David Bergland
I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else. — Solange Knowles
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law. — A. V. Dicey
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border… — Charles P. Kindleberger
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but… — Errico Malatesta
Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome… — Twyla Tharp
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I… — Brad Thor
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by… — Robert McNamara
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread… — Iain Banks
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't… — Bill Gates

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