A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.
She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what...
[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are moti...
Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him under...
The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which h...
Sometimes during our lives, the Universe ensures that we come back into the silence. If we don’t consciously stop in our busy lives, we may have perceptively negative things happen in our lives, sickness, change, events that force us to stop and be...
[after finding out that Jake has destroyed the cameras on the one of the dozers, Quaritch kills the link for Grace and Jake] Jake Sully: [Jake emerges from the link] Are you out of your goddamn mind? Col. Quaritch: You crossed the line. [Quaritch pun...
Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser lights inform us that the alternative to Christia...
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.
