Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.

Bill Cosby

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Graydon Carter

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Jack London

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Peter Diamandis

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Randy Pausch

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

Sylvia Plath

Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.

Debasish Mridha

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

Dick Cavett

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.

Jason Ritter

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Neal Boortz

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

Paul Prudhomme

Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.

Hush

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Lost Horizon

His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

In the Solar System, Enceladus ought to be one of the highest priorities for the world's space agencies. Enceladus has a source of energy (tidal heating), organic material, and liquid water. That's a textbook-like list of those properties needed for ...

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day...

On the Shortness of Life

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the gro...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here-...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- ti...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life