Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short… — Robert Higgs
In short I will part with anything for you but you. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true:… — Gilbert Burnet
The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer. — Watchman Nee
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in… — Laura Hillenbrand
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my… — Rex Hunt
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus. — Robert Breault
The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall… — Payne Stewart
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that… — John W. Snow
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of… — Hermann Hesse
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that… — Unknown Author
Life's too short for chess. — Henry James Byron
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. — Shirley Conran
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work. — Seth Godin
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. — Asa Gray
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I… — Robert E. Lee
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I… — W. S. Gilbert
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive… — Boris Gelfand
A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no… — Pema Chodron
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling… — Unknown Author
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what… — B. C. Forbes
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of… — Thomas A. Edison
There is no short cut to a place worth going. — Beverly Sills

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