Short Quotes
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.
I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.
I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close. So I think the Vimeo thing, because it's pay to download, that helps
We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.