Short Quotes

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

... life is too short to do the whole.

We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

Life is too short to dust every week.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

Life's too short to bullshit.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

One life is too short for doing everything.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

Life's too short. I'm not!

Short films don't go too far.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.