The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'
I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Yes, I have my outbursts but I'm not nasty. And I only lose my temper for the right reasons.
People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.
My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.
Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.
I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.
Spinners are increasingly starting to bowl short, which means they are taking the straight boundaries away. When you play Test match cricket, you can't bowl short.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
If Pitt is on the short list, there's no reason that West Virginia shouldn't be on the Big 12 short list.
Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.
Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
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