And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.
Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and ...
Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
