While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
Victoria Beckham

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
Alan Shepard

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Jeremy Taylor

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
Belinda Carlisle

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Kate Winslet

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
Tom Wolfe

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
Alex Rodriguez

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Jose Saramago

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

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.
Herschel Walker

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.
Maria Monk

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
Sugar Ray Leonard

In short I will part with anything for you but you.
Mary Wortley Montagu

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
David Allan Coe