#short

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#authentic #beautiful #cannot #cleansed #discovery

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bending #close-up #got #him #how

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#anything #around #buts #could #does

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with. ↗

— Debra Winger

#arm #bad #bad thing #basic #because

Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#i #material #president #short #whoever

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#amazing #attitude #change #example #freedom

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#i #i love #last #love #russian