Shorten Quotes
55 quotes by 52 authors
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways…
— Christiaan Barnard
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Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at…
— Josemaria Escriva
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So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?
— Rio Ferdinand
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid…
— Helen Keller
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Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who…
— Harry S. Truman
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden…
— William George Jordan
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It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This…
— Joel Osteen
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Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.
— Henry Beard
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By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a…
— Alberto Juantorena
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you…
— Helen Schucman
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It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your…
— Rick Warren
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other…
— Robert South
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No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
— Joel Osteen
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