Quotes About Short

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.

Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much.

Make your visits short, especially to the sick. To visit too often is tiresome to your friends, and to visit too rarely is less than what is due to friendship. Your calls will be best appreciated when they are seasonable and not too frequent. Too much familiarity is a cause of coolness among friends. Do

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Whereas reasons may, and usually do, figure among the proximate causes of belief ... it is always possible to ... penetrate but a short way down, and they are found no more.

Time is their tyrant: it fails them, it escapes them; they can neither expand it nor cut it short.

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

I don't trust short people. Their brains are too near their butt.

When you realize how short life is, you ought to celebrate life even more.

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

When I started presenting I'd get invited to red carpet events and I went to a few premieres. But pretty soon I thought, 'Life's too short.'

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

The recording companies are continuing to look at ways to buy short and sell long. So now they give recording deals to groups of people who we refer to as 'garage bands' - they are amateurs who are bought for nothing and it's really a shame.

I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.

I've gone after stuff that is short and highly appealing.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

La vida es demasiado corta y la muerta está demasiado cerca.

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

Something about the WSL is that the margins for error are very small. In the Premier League you can get away with losing a couple of games, but the women's league is so short and the leaders tend to set the bar so high that if you lose a couple of games your title hopes are over.

Personally, I think 'Dead Americans' is the best title I have, but you can't win with everyone. Titles have to be short, catchy, not too obscure, not offensive, and still capture the genre, and so on and so forth. Takeshi Kitano has it about right when he says he'd just like to title his films by number.

To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.