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Quotes About Short

If a man in a smoking jacket in a coal-fire-heated library in his manor house in London can understand that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, then how can it be denied by a man pulling a sledge stacked with frozen meat and furs across an unnamed island, through the Arctic night under a sky gone mad, towards a frozen sea a thousand miles and more from any civilised hearth?
~ Dan Simmons
Life is short. Live passionately.
~ Unknown
It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.
~ Robert J. Waldinger
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
~ William Shakespeare
When we saw her again her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows—sort of tragic and serene.
~ William Faulkner
Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u in thought, his eyes wide.
~ China Mieville
Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience
~ Chip Heath
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
~ Chris Cleave
Nkiruka loved music, and now I saw that she was right because life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
~ Chris Cleave
Life is too short to dance with ugly men
~ Christina Dodd
Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may; Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.
~ Christina Rossetti
I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!
~ Christine Feehan
Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.
~ Christopher Fowler
Life is too short to drink the house wine.
~ Helen Thomas
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frdric Amiel
Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
~ Henry Kissinger
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
~ Henry L. Stimson
She doesn't stand up because her legs are too short. She's a very bad figure.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
~ Temple Grandin
My 'Playboy' cover shoot experience was nothing short of a paid luxury vacation.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
Cassie perched on an oversize recliner, her butt barely on the cushion. If she'd scooted back, her feet wouldn't have reached the floor. One of the pitfalls of being short.
~ Unknown