Short Lived Quotes - Page 4

• Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

  Winfield Scott

  Peace, Achievement, Compromise

  "The Iron Man of India". Book by S. Jaysbee, p. 57, 1951.

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• Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Strong, Commitment, Ideas

  State dinner in honor of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Mrs. Rita Sargsyan, www.president.am. January 18, 2011.

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• If people recognize me from The Vampire Diaries, they just give me that look that's like, "I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure," because it was such a short-lived run.

  Cassidy Freeman

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Cassidy Freeman Talks LONGMIRE, SMALLVILLE, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and Her Band, THE REAL D’COY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

  George Packer

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Jeb`s Bush front-runner status was short lived, to say the least. But who could have predicted that the Republican front-runner would be someone that we were not even thinking about.Donald Trump was not even on anyone`s radar back then and Mike Pence was getting more attention than he was.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Thinking, Would Be, Attention

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

  M. Ward

  Ideas, Guitar, Interesting

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

  Maggie Siff

  Distance, Actors, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• God does things for us because He trusts us; that when He gives it to us, that we will do the right thing. We'll open up our eyes and see the plan He has for us. If we're not going to open up our eyes, don't worry - you're not going to have it long. You're short-lived.

  Steve Harvey

  Eye, Long, Giving

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Eye, Night

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Hypocrisy, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

  Adrien Brody

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Blessed, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Eye, Rich Or Poor, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.51, New World Library

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

  Bruce Barton

  Book, Years, People

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• I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

  Brian Jacques

  Fate, Fickle, Company

  Brian Jacques (2006). “The Ribbajack: and Other Haunting Tales”, p.51, Penguin

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• But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

  Suzanne Collins

  Memories, Stupid, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.297, Scholastic

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• Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Agony, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 29, 2013

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• Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Gone, Fleeting

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• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay?
  A breath one single gasp must puff away!
  A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade!
  A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade!
  A stream that silently but swiftly glides
  To meet eternity's immeasured tides!
  A being, lost alike by pain or joy?
  A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy!
  Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone,
  Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  Alexander Brome

  Life, Art, Pain

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

  Fanny Burney

  Loneliness, Heart, Solitude

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.528, Delphi Classics

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