In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.
Life is short as breathing! Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow! "The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it.
