Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty. . . than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
The trouble with records is that they're too short.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?
When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.
Everything goes with short hair. It's bananas.
Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.
I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.
Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -.
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.