Quotes of: Short-life Keyword

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

Victoria Beckham

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

Bill Skarsgard

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force of an idea could measure up to the physical forces of a government. The key to understanding Japanese power relations is tha...

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost self; and, because a hero seems to have solved many problems that may worry a boy, or at least demonstrates the capacity to solve them...

Hugh Kenrick

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so...

Arcadia

Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and sta...

Only the Deplorable

Hey, suit guy!" The man bellowed. Chris bit back the urge to yell. He turned, expecting to be confronted by a hand held out for money. What he saw was a pair of enormous eyes, the same color as the spring sky, set in a face with high cheekbones and a...

Love's Evolution

what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted places of my memory,' the return to nearby exoticism by way of a detour through distant places, and the 'discovery' of relics and legends: 'fleet...

The Practice of Everyday Life

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make stil...

Seneca

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot be written by machines or committees. The t...

Christopher Hitchens

Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at ...

Emily Bronte

Lowell Bergman: I fought for you and I still fight for you! Jeffrey Wigand: You fought for me? You manipulated me! Into where I am now - staring at the Brown & Williamson building, it's all dark except for the tenth floor. That's the legal department...

The Insider

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or pro...

Tennessee Williams

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

The Day Before 9/11

My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady. Don't judge.

Declaration

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

The Denial of Death

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Echopraxia

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Exogenesis

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

Hope Was Here

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

Black Tulips