Short Time Quotes

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.