Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being… — Laozi
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every… — Noah Webster
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. — Unknown Author
I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class… — Smedley Butler
We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a… — Craig Newmark
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a… — Fulton J. Sheen
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love. — Rumi
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,… — Blaise Pascal
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. — Seneca the Younger
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short. — Peter Charles Newman
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we… — R C Sproul
It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A… — Richard Koch
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. — Maxwell Maltz
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window… — Bill Ford
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the… — Antonin Scalia
The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we… — John F. Kennedy
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or… — Satyajit Ray
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form — Irwin Shaw
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever — Irwin Shaw
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music. — Alber Elbaz
Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend. — Alber Elbaz
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides… — Joseph Sobran
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or… — Martin Feldstein

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