#short

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#authoritarian #be happy #because #china #countries

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#jewish #liberal #short

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#because #circumstance #extreme #frame #humanity

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#become #boring #die #florida #go

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#both #doors #every #exist #farm

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#life #life is short #lived #short

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#read #reader #really #short #short story

Time is long but life is short. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#life is short #long #short #time

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. ↗