Top 1200 Best Short Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

Whenever I have short ,it's important for me to be inspired by people with short hair.

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

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Players should get the best deals for themselves whenever they can. Football is a relatively short career.

A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

Jah, for me, is just short for Jehovah. It's a short name for God.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to make a different manuscript work, and I thought I was just taking a break by writing some short stories. I'm not a very good short story writer - the amazing compression that is required for short stories doesn't come easily to me. But anyway, I thought I'd try to write some short stories. And a structure took shape - I stumbled upon it.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

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.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.

I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

I can't ever imagine going in for short hair. I'm somehow not comfortable in getting a short haircut done.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.