#short

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrate #days #each #eleven #few

The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it. ↗

— Hal Sutton

#haven #how #just #lately #life

Short term memory is not good. ↗

— Jim McMahon

#memory #short #short term #term

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#capacity #greater #our #our time #patience

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#creator #done #down #dying #hands

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time. ↗

— Maria Monk

#i #i was born #john #lived #short

The shortest answer is doing. ↗

— George Herbert

#doing #shortest

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

Life is short, the art long. ↗

— Hippocrates

#life #life is short #long #short