Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

Tullian Tchividjian

You're too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.

Love

Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.

Love

You shut up!You speak too much for someone who always keeps his mouth hidden behind a mask!

Life

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

Will Self

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

P. J. Harvey

Carpe Diem By Edna Stewart Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I? The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me? Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my ...

The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree

[first lines] Jake La Motta: I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every j...

Raging Bull

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...

David Copperfield

If you take too long to choose, you will end up with the leftovers.

Croatian

He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.

Danish

He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.

German

He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow.

Indian

If you think about things too long, good thoughts will disappear.

Japanese

If you are too sparing with the cat's food, the rats will eat your ears.

Lebanese

He whose clothes are too fine, shall go about in rags.

Mauritanian

When the cat gets too old, the mice are not afraid any more.

Myanmar

A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he has no teeth.

Russian

Give a naked man a piece of cloth and he will say it is too thick.

Russian

Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.

Russian

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

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