Short Quotes

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

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.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

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.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Life's too short for chess.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Last year was a tough decision for me, to end my season so short. But it was the right decision for me, because right now I feel great. I can go out here and sprint full speed right now, but I'm just going to pace myself for April 5.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

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.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.