#short

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#always #between #comedy #course #falls

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks. ↗

— Dana Torres

#body #difficult #extremely #i #intense

I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#did #engagement #go #i #i think

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#complete #condition #department #doctors #felt

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#big #card #diplomacy #gamble #hand

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#believe #change #change the world #i #immediate

Good things, when short, are twice as good. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#good things #short #things #twice

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#agility #any #arms #ball #body

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

#books #few #hours #life #none