Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
I like to wear skirts long or short.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
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.
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.
