Quotes with short-lived

Quotes 281 till 300 of 466.

  • Bernard Malamud No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
    - +
     0
  • Ken Keyes Jr No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
    - +
     0
  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
    - +
     0
  • Roger Staubach Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
    - +
     0
  • John Kenneth Galbraith Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
    - +
     0
  • Cher Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
    1992
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Michel de Certeau One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
    - +
     0
  • Paul Bourget One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
    Paul Bourget
    French writer (1852 - 1935)
    - +
     0
  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Francesco Guicciardini One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
    Francesco Guicciardini
    Italian politician, soldier and historian (1483 - 1540)
    - +
     0
  • Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Burnett Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur C. Clarke Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Goldsmith Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
    - +
     0
All short-lived famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)