Short Quotes

5248 Short quotes by 3398 unique authors

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus… — John Spratt
Fashion as we used to know it doesn't exist. The dress as we know it today-it's dead. The dress has become so short it's really… — Rudi Gernreich
To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables,… — Marion Nestle
If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances,… — Carlo Petrini
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit… — Ray Stannard Baker
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a… — Jen Lancaster
Peter Martin’s artistry is nothing short of extraordinary. To sing with him is sublime – to listen to him play is a transcendent experience. — Dianne Reeves
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely… — Paul Tough
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things… — Sherry Turkle
We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the… — Jay Park
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. — Edith Schaeffer
There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of… — Edith Schaeffer
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest
I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot… — George du Maurier
The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John… — George Meyer
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first… — Eric Avery
I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets. — Robin Trower
I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an exhibit but they… — Sam Maloof
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in… — John L'Heureux
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name… — Roxane Gay
It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No… — Daniel Taylor
I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things… — Jon Foreman
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. — Charles Spurgeon
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. — Richard Wagner
Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. — Rory Vaden

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