Short Quotes

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

~ Arthur Quiller-Couch

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

~ Michael Pollan

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

~ Lebron James

Time is long but life is short.

~ Stevie Wonder

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

~ Wyclef Jean

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

~ Adam Hochschild

Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.'

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

~ Abraham Maslow

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

~ Halle Berry

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

~ Mae West

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

~ Bethany Hamilton

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

~ Ben Harper

Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.

~ Kimora Lee Simmons

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

~ Winston Churchill

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

~ Tim Tebow

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

~ Rose Leslie

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

~ Johnny Weir

You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

~ Margot Kidder

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

~ Greg Bear

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

~ Albert Einstein

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

~ Joel Salatin

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

~ Danny Meyer

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The fake republics are goners the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.

~ Elliott Abrams

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

~ Barton Gellman

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

~ Eugene Cernan

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

~ Voltaire

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

~ James Weldon Johnson

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

~ Ian Hacking

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

~ Howard Stringer

I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

~ Joshua Bell

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

~ Helen Keller

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

~ Edward Teller

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

~ George Herbert Mead

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

~ Roger Ascham

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

~ Louise Mensch

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

~ Beth Ditto