Quotes of: Short-time Keyword

Ami leaned into his side and inhaled the fresh scent of man. “Uh, no. Sometimes my biological clock threatens to explode like a ticking bomb, that’s all. Rachel is so lucky. Nat is a doll. Doug adores them. Don’t mind me, I’m just wishing my ...

Lumberjack in Love

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed...

Short Shorts

Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time; A time to plant, a time to harvest. A time to cry, a time to laugh. A time to be sad, a time to be happy. A time to be born, a time to die.

Lailah Gifty Akita

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

The Cabinet of Curiosities

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Children of Húrin

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Computing machinery and intelligence

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Catharine and Other Writings

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Envy

Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.

Glass Houses

Long are the lives of elves' he said. Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

Giantslayer

Because, life's too short, my friends. Let's squeeze in as many laughs as we can get.

The Book of Awesome

In short, if you should find yourself in a fight against a vampire, you are really right and proper fucked.

Blood, Smoke and Mirrors

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

Ben Stein

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Thomas Middleditch

Draw from the unbeatable courage and love of Christ--don't stop short; He didn't.

2 Timothy: Winning the Victory

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Animal Farm

I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.

Artemis Fowl

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.

Angelfall

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

Independent People