Short Quotes

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Life's too short for chess.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Last year was a tough decision for me, to end my season so short. But it was the right decision for me, because right now I feel great. I can go out here and sprint full speed right now, but I'm just going to pace myself for April 5.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.