Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Bonnie Blair

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Mark Cuban

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Alexander the Great

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

We're not short on supply -- we're potentially short if something were to happen.

Yao Ming

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.

Albert Einstein

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Certainly, in the short term, there will be some opportunity.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.