Quotes with shortest

  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
  • If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
  • The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Will Rogers Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertolt Brecht If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Alan Cohen If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Victor Borge Laughter is the shortest distance between people.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • William C. Bryant Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
    Bernard De Voto
     
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • William Bolitho The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Benjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • S. Smiles The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
    S. Smiles
     
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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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  • Sydney Smiles The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
    Sydney Smiles
     
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