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Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates

Life, Art, Long

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson

Conscience, Memory, Mistake

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
Paul Brunton

Faith, Spiritual, Worry

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
David Bowie

Life, God, True

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
William Shatner

Long, Run, Guess

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

Time, Mom, Long

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
Demetri Martin

Love, Ideas, Jokes

In short, Luck's always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
Michael J. Fox

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
Jon Stewart

Two, Talk, Show

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Long, Based

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.
Alanis Morissette

Long, Again, Hair

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Michael J. Fox

Else, Stand, Everybody

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
Michael J. Fox

Education, Felt, Conclusion

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
Jack Welch

Long, While, Management

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
Demetri Martin

Love, Long, Wanted

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Herbert Simon

Business, Design, Might

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier

Character, Judge, Saying

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

Life, Long, Learn

We're here for such a short period of time.
Jeff Bridges

Time, Here, Period

Words fall short sometimes.
Jeff Bridges

Words, Sometimes, Fall

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

Long, Sometimes, Order

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey

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

Long, Used, Losers

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Eyes, While

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.
Tiger Woods

Perfect, Far, Faults

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
LeBron James

Time, Amazing, Help

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.
Debra Winger

Life, Work, Bad

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