Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Foer

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Mark Steyn

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Ovid

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Mike Huckabee

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

John Green

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Madonna Ciccone

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

Michael Kiwanuka

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

Omar Torrijos

He who gives love, receives love.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Seth Godin

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Nick Tosches

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Martina Hingis

The older you get, the more you learn.

Theo Rossi

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one.

If one of them is in for a three-and-out, that's a pretty short series.

I had short hair. And I was a whole lot younger.

Libba Bray

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Hector Hugh Munro

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Frank Robinson

The first time was much more severe, and he wasn't able to walk. I think this one will be kind of short term,

Orson Scott Card

How short life is for fools.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Roy Orbison

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Woody Allen

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Samuel Rogers

To know her was to love her.

Robin Hobb

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Winston Churchill

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Samuel Richardson

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Rudy Rucker

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.