Short Quotes

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

~ Dorothy Hamill

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

~ Ronald Reagan

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

~ Madeleine Albright

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

~ Rex Hunt

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

~ Lena Dunham

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

~ Sylvia Plath

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

~ Sophocles

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

~ Patrick Lencioni

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

~ Alain De Botton

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

~ Kevin Wilson

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

~ Alex Steffen

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

~ David Friedman

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

~ Paul Theroux

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

~ Ben Stein

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

~ Paris Hilton

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

~ Eric Davis

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

~ Ariana Grande

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

~ Sarah Louise Delany

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

~ Elon Musk

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

~ Amy Winehouse

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

~ Shania Twain

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

~ Hugh Hefner

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

~ Audre Lorde

Life is too short to work so hard.

~ Vivien Leigh

I am all for the short and merry life.

~ Edward Fitzgerald

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

~ David Allan Coe

My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

~ Liz Goldwyn

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

~ Mary Wortley Montagu

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

~ Virginia Woolf

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

~ Sam Smith

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

~ Jane Campion

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

~ Louise Brown

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.

~ Emmanuel Macron

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.

~ Liv Tyler

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

~ Wole Soyinka

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

~ F. Sionil José

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

~ Daniel Radcliffe