Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karel Capek

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Mark Steyn

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Libba Bray

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Emily Dickinson

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

Lennox Lewis

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

Shania Twain

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind

Hector Hugh Munro

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Frank Robinson

The first time was much more severe, and he wasn't able to walk. I think this one will be kind of short term,

Jonathan Ames

There's no shortage of material in life.

Eric Liu

What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?

Eric Davis

Life is too short to worry about anything

Eric Davis

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

John Galliano

You only get a short life, so take chances.

Larry McMurtry

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Joseph Campbell

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Justin Rosenstein

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Joshua Foer

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

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.

Louis D. Brandeis

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Robin Hobb

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Thomas Holcroft

Love and a red rose can't be hid.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

Stephen Covey

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Tom Waits

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

Regina Spektor

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.