I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
Irvine Welsh

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Alfred Marshall

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper

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

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

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

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

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
Jim Brown

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles