Short Quotes

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

You create your own reality.

Childhood is a short season.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

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

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Life can only be understood backwards.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

I came alive when I started loving you.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.

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.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Life is short, have dessert first.