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And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world (Short Quotes)
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends (Short Quotes)
I thought, I’m only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits? (Short Quotes)
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason (Short Quotes)
To protect our freedoms, it seems we’re going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time (Short Quotes)
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate (Short Quotes)
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world (Short Quotes)
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies (Short Quotes)
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man’s (Short Quotes)
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed (Short Quotes)
More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral (Short Quotes)
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short (Short Quotes)
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made (Short Quotes)
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife (Short Quotes)
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more (Short Quotes)
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny (Short Quotes)
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable (Short Quotes)
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while (Short Quotes)
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself (Short Quotes)
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others (Short Quotes)
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? (Short Quotes)
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it (Short Quotes)
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so (Short Quotes)
For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe (Short Quotes)
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That’s what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live (Short Quotes)
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers (Short Quotes)
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation (Short Quotes)
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner (Short Quotes)
I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can’t do it all (Short Quotes)
I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don’t. I don’t learn anything from it anymore (Short Quotes)