Short Quotes - page 11

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. View quote
Robert Sheckley
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement. View quote
Alfred Korzybski
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. View quote
James Boswell
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. View quote
John Cheever
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? View quote
Rex Stout
There are some simple maxims [...] which I think might be commanded to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Short on glamour and long on tragedy. View quote
Quentin Reynolds
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. View quote
David Harvey
Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism. (David Harvey)
I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties. View quote
Iwane Matsui
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. View quote
Winfield Scott
You may ask what kind of republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such people it is impossible to solve any of our problems - human, economic, ecological, social, or political. View quote
Václav Havel
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Art indeed is long, but life is short. View quote
Andrew Marvell
The short winter's day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out. View quote
Samuel Beckett
When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. View quote
Jackson Pollock
From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews. View quote
David Ben-Gurion