Short Time Quotes - Page 9

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

Lavrentiy Beria

Loyalty, Country, Hands

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In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

Susie Orbach

Beautiful, Men, Goes On

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There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

Karl Barth

Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Coolio

Fun, Life Is Too Short, Moon

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in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

Margaret Halsey

Daughter, People, Childhood

Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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A mother and daughter are an edge.
Edges are ecotones, transitional zones,
places of danger or opportunity.
House-dwelling tension.
When I stand on the edge of the land and sea,
I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition.
High tide. Low tide.
It is the sea's reach and retreat
that reminds me
we have been human
for only a very short time.

Terry Tempest Williams

Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan

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Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

Frank Minis Johnson

Girl, Softball, Team

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In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

Angela of Foligno

Family, Mother, Husband

Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.

Joyce Johnson

Art, Media, Degrees

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The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Christian, Hate, Land

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”

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Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

Robert Wilson Lynd

War, Fighting, Turkeys

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For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

Marco Rubio

Dream, Ambition, America

Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

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Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.

Frank Pittman

Daughter, Children, Father

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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

Elon Musk

Years, Long, Important

"Uberpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human Societies". Book by Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, December 8, 2013.

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I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

Lucy Powell

Baby, Born, Parliament

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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Greg Kinnear

Thinking, Cities, People

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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Chief Joseph

Men, White Man, Land

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My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

Miley Cyrus

Mom, Mother, Long

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I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Russell Crowe

Sorry, People, Mates

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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Elizabeth Edwards

Positive, Attitude, Long

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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

John James Audubon

Exercise, Sea, May

John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Philip Green

Stores, Found, Chains

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A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

Hulk Hogan

People, Realizing, Carpet

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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

Waylon Jennings

Death, Loss, Tragedy

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You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Johan Huizinga

Long, Long Time

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