#short

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#box #god #man #short #too

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#cut #i #obviously #shorter #than

Life is short and progress is slow. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#life is short #progress #short #slow

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#i #i think #many #people #reactive

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#information #long #psychoanalysts #seem #short

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#depths #essence #falls #fathom #inspiration

The frame of the mirror was a deep mahogany and carved with an intricate design of what appeared in the dim light to be leaves and vines. The mirror’s surface was clouded with dust and age, so much that Quinn could not even see his own reflection. On impulse, he rubbed a small circle with the back of his wrist but beneath the dust the glass was still milky and unclear. ~ "The Mirror ↗

— Cassie McCown

#christmas-lites #paranormal #short-story #the-mirror #ya