Short Quotes - page 12

Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. (Thomas Hobbes)
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it. View quote
John Brunner
Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful. View quote
John Brunner
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. View quote
John Muir
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. View quote
John Muir
Celebrate we will Because life is short But sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue. View quote
Dave Matthews
When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall. View quote
Kevin Warwick
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell. View quote
Ben Harper
Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies. View quote
Bob Dylan
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis. (Carl Jung)
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way. View quote
Reese Witherspoon
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. View quote
Charles Fort
My life is short. I can't listen to banality. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. View quote
Francesco Guicciardini
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. View quote
Will Rogers
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. View quote
Herbert Read
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. View quote
Confucius
China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States. View quote
John Mearsheimer
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. View quote
Joanna Baillie
Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's. (Laraine Day)
How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! View quote
Jean Ingelow
Furthermore, since I have observed that our citizens are distracted with public affairs and private business, I have thought it best to write briefly, so that my readers, whose intervals of leisure are small, may be able to comprehend in a short time. View quote
Vitruvius
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. View quote
Max Beerbohm
If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. View quote
Amory Lovins