Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

A Short Stay in Hell

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

A Short Affair Called Life

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for alone he kept the prefix summus.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Short Shorts

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Something Like Summer

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

Politics: A Very Short Introduction

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

The Peach Keeper

Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

Purple Moon

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Q & A

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Quote Me Everyday

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Roland Barthes

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

Linda Evangelista

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

Maggie Grace