I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters

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

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

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

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Lynn Abbey

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

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

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

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

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

Life is too short to work so hard.
Vivien Leigh

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen

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

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