Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.[Roger Ebert] Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry] Quote:Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.[Socrates] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa] Quote:To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.[Ray Bandy] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. [Aristophanes] Quote:Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. [Ronald Reagan] Quote:Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: shortDefinition: Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.Definition: Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. Definition: Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. Definition: Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. Definition: Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. Definition: Not distant in time; near at hand. Definition: Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. Definition: Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. Definition: Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. Definition: Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. Definition: Brittle. Definition: Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv. Definition: Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30. Definition: In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. Definition: To fail; to decrease. |
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