Shortened Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old… — Karl Marx
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to… — Larry Lucchino
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they… — John F. Kennedy
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing… — Elaine Paige
In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so… — Billie Holiday
I think managing shortened my playing career, but I was a better manager when I was playing, when I could lead like a platoon sergeant… — Frankie Frisch
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out. — Emil Artin
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much… — William Bligh
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,… — Isaac Newton
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if… — Mary Heaton Vorse
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more — Akkineni Nagarjuna
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their… — Raul Castro
No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose. — Henry Rollins
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the… — Justin Zackham
Work divided is in that manner shortened. — Martial
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating… — Thomas Carlyle

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