Quotes of: Shortness Keyword

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like tha...

Rose Leslie

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Kevin Rudd

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem d...

Jerry Saltz

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

1Q84

A banker is a man who will lend you the short sleeve shirt off his back and demand a long sleeve one in return.

It Occurred to Me

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

Kiro's Emily

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

Romeo and Juliet

Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects

Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success

The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love.

The Reason

That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can’t throw it away because it isn’t perfect.

Siren Beloved

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

The Savage Detectives

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

Strangers in the Land

Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.

Murder Aboard the Titanic: A Mystery At Sea Short

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.

The Nation

The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.

Nets to Catch the Wind

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Lord Jim

Time is too short in this one life, to be able to do everything, but it definitely is long enough at least to be able to develop the will to do anything & everything...

Life Simplified!

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Minding the Body

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Mockingjay

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir