Short Quotes
5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors
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We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country…
— Bruce Babbitt
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[A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating…
— Tom J. Donohue
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The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so…
— Ronald Reagan
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It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
— Ansel Adams
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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel…
— Unknown Author
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Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover…
— Anko Itosu
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Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
— Constance Markievicz
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Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful…
— Lewis Mumford
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
— John Donne
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In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him…
— Alexander Waugh
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You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's…
— Dave Obey
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Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
— Belinda Carlisle
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
— Kate Adie
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I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you…
— Bo Jackson
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Life's to short for chess.
— Henry James Byron
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It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short…
— John Phillips
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Art is eternal, but life is short.
— Evelyn De Morgan
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I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking…
— Greg Lake
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because…
— John Guare
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of…
— Queen Elizabeth II
Who Wrote These Short Quotes
3,398 authors contributed a total of 5,248 Short Quotes, led by these top contributors: