Quotes with short-sighted

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  • Carol Windley It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.
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  • Ben Schwartz It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bob Newhart It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Orwell Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Philip Roth Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ben Harper 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
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Hippocrates Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Life is short; live it up.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Life is too short for a long story.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • R. Porson Life is too short to learn German.
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  • James Joyce Life is too short to read a bad book.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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