If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.
Jeffrey Sachs

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
Aga Khan III

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.
Todd Barry

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Anthony Trollope

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
Donna Shalala

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
Alan Shepard

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
Arthur Henderson

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
Arthur Hugh Clough

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Pope Paul VI

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Elizabeth Moon

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
Hesiod

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch