Short Quotes - page 13

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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button. View quote
Brené Brown
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need. View quote
Stendhal
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. View quote
Studs Terkel
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" View quote
Victor Hugo
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. View quote
Isaac Watts
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. View quote
Martina Navratilova
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used. View quote
Russell Baker
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. View quote
Smedley Butler
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Life is too short to drink bad wine. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God. View quote
Sydney Smith
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on. View quote
Stanisław Lem
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. View quote
Richard Lewontin
Life's too short. We have to love each other. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Life is too short to read a bad book. (James Joyce)
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. View quote
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer's lease hath all too short a date. View quote
William Shakespeare
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it - from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. View quote
James Berardinelli