#short

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ↗

— Voltaire

#granted #i #lord #made #make

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#had #i #long #relationships #shorter

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. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#i #i wish #know #languages #life

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#i #i am #shorthand #talk #then

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#crime #i #life #no point #point

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. ↗

— Robin Williams

#everyone #finish #knows #like #monty

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#cycles #entire #history #oil #shortage

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#bear #brothers #career #chic #consisted