Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

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.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

They stopped themselves just short of the intersection.

John Hennessy

For a short while, he will be one of best-known slaves in America.

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

David Chase

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Buddy Rice

It was short but he got to do what he wanted to do and he made it to the top level. That's a part of our job. It just comes with the territory and its just how its going to be.

Carrie Fisher

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

This is an unwinding of the yen's short positions.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

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.

Bryant H. McGill

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Charles Kennedy

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

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Bonnie Blair

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Jerry Kelly

Boston's for the bombers. I'm a short hitter.