Quotes with short-sighted

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  • Vivien Leigh Life is too short to work so hard.
    Vivien Leigh
    English actress (1913 - 1967)
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  • Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anthony Hopkins Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Ang Lee My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bob Menendez My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Armistead Maupin My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Voltaire My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Solomon Short Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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  • Walter Lippmann No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • 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)
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