Quotes with short-distance

Quotes 301 till 320 of 359.

  • Buzz Aldrin There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William Zinsser There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Bob Dylan There's seven people dead
    On a South Dakota farm
    Somewhere in the distance
    There's seven new people born
    Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke 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 not.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Ben Affleck To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Buddha 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.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Lee To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
    Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Confucius To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lorrie Moore To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
    Source:  (2011)
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • A. N. Wilson Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alan Turing We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Anatole France We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Carlo Rubbia We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Kofi Annan We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
    Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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