#short

We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. ↗

— John R. Allen

#both #combination #community #international #international community

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bore #care #fights #hundred #lest

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better! ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#ask #better #day #made #more

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#certain #heroes #i #i believe #measure

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#destruction #heritage #long-term #policy #preserve

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#every #find #go #i #like

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. ↗

— James Allen

#cannot #endure #errors #hide #highway