Top 1200 Life Being Too Short Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

Life is very short; be willing to serve.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

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. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Life really is short, and you just have to go for it.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

Remember that life is short and death is long.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

Because life is short but sweet for certain

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

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.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

The reason I became an actor was applause and being the center of attention. So, short of that, Twitter is probably a good alternative.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Really, I've been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Life is short. Help more people.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

Life is short...eat desert first!

Life is short, and every moment is precious.

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?