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Quotes About Short

Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.
~ Ebenezer Elliott
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.
~ Leslie Newman
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.
~ Ronald Reagan
If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.
~ Ernst Rohm
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.
~ Scipio Africanus
Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
~ Virat Kohli
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
~ Anna Quindlen
A short, chesty man with a round face wreathed in an expression of constant, surprised good humor, waved cheerily to her.
~ Anne McCaffrey
It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing - empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they'd been with her.
~ Anne Tyler
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
~ Shakespeare, William
Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
~ David James
The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.
~ Deepak Chopra
I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'
~ Mickey Rooney
I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.
~ Miranda July
Life is very short; be willing to serve.
~ Peter Garrett
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
~ Ringo Starr
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
~ Sarah Dessen
Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is too damn short.
~ Simone Elkeles
Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.
~ Josh Lanyon
Our exile here on earth is very short, and our native land is timeless. Here we seek devotion to God, but there we rest.
~ John E. Rotelle
Hence, all you vain delights,As short as are the nightsWherein you spend your folly!There's naught in this life sweetBut only melancholy;O sweetest melancholy!
~ John Fletcher
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
~ John Hersey
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It is important to stress that carving on wood or stone is a fairly laborious process and that the kinds of things recorded using the runic alphabets tended to be short and of a different nature from texts that can be easily written only in manuscripts.
~ John Lindow