Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled… — Unknown Author
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history… — Mariel Hemingway
Life's too short to be working with divas. — Richard O'Brien
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all. — Robert Frost
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may… — Max De Pree
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to… — Edward Abbey
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a… — Jeremy Northam
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet… — Clifford Odets
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. — Jeanne Moreau
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More
Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with… — Wes Fesler
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children… — Mark Skousen
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. — Leon Kass
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past… — Saint Augustine
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not… — Peter Drucker
Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is… — John Wooden
I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. — Summer Altice
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the… — Leonard Sweet
I've heard all the things — their marriage is not real, he's gay, she's gay, they swing. But at the end of the day, people… — Jada Pinkett Smith
I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much… — Bob Goff
Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services… — Satoru Iwata
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will… — Unknown Author
Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Unknown Author

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