Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Huckabee

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Ludivine Sagnier

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Emily Dickinson

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Charles Kennedy

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Zig Ziglar

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

Mary J. Blige

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

Eddie Huang

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Denis Leary

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Charles M. Schulz

Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Charlyne Yi

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

Barbara Johnson

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Robert Doisneau

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Vincent Cassel

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Sarah Dessen

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

Trisha Yearwood

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Milarepa

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Paul Ryan

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Josh Lawson

I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.