Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.

Auliq Ice

It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.

Anthony Liccione

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Paul

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

Abraham Verghese

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Bryan Adams

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Ken Livingstone

There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived

Will Leamon

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

William Shatner

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Emily Blunt

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

It is a mistake for anyone who is just in this stage to appear before a church as a teacher. He has outgrown the naivete with which in young people’s work he might by all means have taken this part. He has not yet come to that maturity which would ...

A Little Exercise for Young Theologians

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only. This bother...

Mary Stevenson

Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculatio...

Christ and Culture

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

The Collected Poems

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

Fly Betty

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

History and Christianity