Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
James Cash Penney

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
Giorgio Armani

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen

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

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
Sandra Day O'Connor

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
James Longstreet

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
George Clooney

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin