Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that. — Tim Cook
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short,… — Karl Barth
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up… — Philip Hensher
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves. — John B. Watson
In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what?… — Hunter S. Thompson
I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the… — Hunter S. Thompson
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
Art is too long, and life is too short, — Grace Paley
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope de Vega
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! — Francisco de Quevedo
It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you… — T. Colin Campbell
In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all… — T. Colin Campbell
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And… — Samuel Daniel
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I… — Antonin Dvorak
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not… — Roger Ebert
I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in… — Susan Sarandon
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner
The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of clean-energy technologies -… — Eban Goodstein
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course. — Joseph J. Romm
Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging. — Samuel Johnson
Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply. — Michael Savage
I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out there and turn… — Michael Chang
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman

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