Short Time Quotes - Page 7

• Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

  Scipio Africanus

  History, Forever, Historical

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• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Years, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Today, Poverty

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• Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

  Timothy Long

  Breakup, Block, Sadness

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• Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Morning, Moving

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• Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

  Vincent de Paul

  Roots, Virtue, Shallow

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Relationship, Disappointment, Grateful

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

  Plato

  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.

  Bruce Willis

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Practice, Atheism, Influence

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• I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, May, Matter

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

  John Naisbitt

  Sex, Government, Gone

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• After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.

  Robert Barry

  Roots, Drawing, Tree

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• 'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

  Bun B

  Able, Film

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• What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Soul, Dying

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1856). “Homilies: On the Statutes, or, To the people of Antioch. 1856”, p.100

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• Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Is Too Short, Working Together, Might

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.

  Max Lucado

  Country, People, Rainbow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Strong, Hard Work

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• I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

  Harrison Ford

  Baseball, Believe, Color

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

  Benjamin Stone

  Careers, Goal, Fit

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Parent, May

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• Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

  Eliza Griswold

  Country, Games, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.

  Derek Ridgers

  Successful, Men, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

  Ken Kesey

  Writing, Thinking, Forever

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