Short Lived Quotes - Page 2

• The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Extinction, Matter

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  Aristotle

  Science, Animal, Sheep

  Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

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• A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

  Nick Cave

  Rocks, Careers, Musician

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• A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.

  Kathleen Norris

  Love, Running, Struggle

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.62, Paulist Press

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Life And Death, Aliens

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when he was president. I was doing Nixon on the radio, and when we did live shows I physicalized him - if that's a word - for the first time. And then I did a Nixon sketch on a very short-lived NBC show called Sunday Best.

  Harry Shearer

  Sunday, Nbc, President

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Safety, Incentives, Moral

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Machines

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Voice

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Rebellion, Arise

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Money, Attractiveness

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.74, Pelican Publishing

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

  Haruki Murakami

  Butterfly, Sight, Punctuation Marks

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Home, Space, Finding Love

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rage is a short-lived fury.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Rage, Fury

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• Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Glasses, Sweat, Ballet

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• Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
  here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

  Thucydides

  Envy, Simplicity, Hatred

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Love, Good Health

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• Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Men, Law

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

  Alan Bradley

  Long, Would Be, Lasting

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• My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

  Joseph Barbera

  Should Have, Years, Impulsive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

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• Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

  Frank Norris

  Evil, Perfect, Judging

  Frank Norris (2008). “The Octopus”, p.838, Book Jungle

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