Too Short Quotes - Page 4

• Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 07, 2014

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• Life is too short to read a bad book.

  James Joyce

  Book, Life Is Too Short, Life Is

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• Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Life Is Too Short, People, Said

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

  Georgia Byng

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, Doubt

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• Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

  Hillary Clinton

  Success, Life Is Too Short, Might

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• Life's too short to be a pushover.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Pushovers, Life's Too Short

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• Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

  Ann Brashares

  Life Is Too Short, Long, Would Be

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• I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Talking, Judgment, I Realized

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• I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

  Betty Smith

  Flirty, Hate, Love You

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Cat

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Life is too short to be lived badly.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is

  Marjane Satrapi (2008). “Persepolis I & II”, Random House

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• Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
  No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Wicked, Neighbor

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• Life's too short to bullshit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Women, Bullshit, Life's Too Short

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• If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.

  Nate Saint

  Christmas, Hate, Sacrifice

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• The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

  Margaret Gatty

  Enough Time, Conflict, Enough

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• Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Morning

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• Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Regret, Games

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• I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Believe, Inspiration

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• The only rule is don't be boring.

  Paris Hilton

  Boring, Fashion Designer, Heiress

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

  Brian Andreas

  Forever, Moments, This Life

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• Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hunting, People, Bird

  Jimmy Carter (1988). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, Bantam

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• The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types of human cancer cases selected...the omission of necessary additional measures ('e.g dietary'), the far too short observation periods, and the undefined chemical properties of the (Laetrile)... all contributed to devaluation of...conclusions.

  Hans Alfred Nieper

  Cancer, Dark, Numbers

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• Life is too short to play bad music

  Bob Brozman

  Life Is Too Short, Guitar, Play

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