The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
Bo Jackson

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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.
Mylie Cyrus

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Vladimir Nabokov

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
Temple Grandin

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
Jeanne Moreau

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
Pope Benedict XVI

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Lord Acton

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
Jim Harrison

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Cher

Life is too short to work so hard.
Vivien Leigh

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

Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
Mariah Carey