Top 70 Short Time Quotes

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

I have a short time to play this game. I’m trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn’t such a leap.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I’m really sorry about.

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there’s no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

I think if you want to go into politics, you have to take a very long-term view with regards to what you want to achieve. You can’t make changes in just a short time.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

I thought, I’m only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.

I was born at St. John’s, where they lived for a short time.

For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

I don’t like six-packs. If you get six-packs in a short time, it will cause health problems.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it’s a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn’t afford to pay for long-term learning.

I believe that you’re here on Earth for a short time, and while you’re here, you shouldn’t forget it.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it’s six months and one week or so, so it’s a very short time.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into ‘things that I like’ and ‘things that I must do.’ You’re only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Today, I don’t think anyone would think that a mixed-race couple looks odd; I think it’s considered perfectly normal. In a very short time frame, the country has changed so much, and for the better. Britain has become, I think, the most tolerant and open-minded country in the world.

In a very short time I have not only increased the age limit in the government service in Chandigarh from 25 to 37 years but also got approved the flyover at the Tribune Chowk and RUB at Mani Majra.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I’ll still be doing my constituency work – just with another baby in tow.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric – they can behave the way they want.

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I’m happy to do some endorsements if I believe in the product. You’re only in this game a short time, and you want to collect the money while you can.

I wanted to complete ‘Maryada Ramanna’ in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now ‘Eega’ took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.

Coach Amodu has coached the cream of Nigerian football players and I had the privilege of working with him albeit for a very short time during the preparations for the two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don’t admire the steam locomotive anymore.

We can’t solve all of our problems in a short time.

I have a lot of options to sign when I left UFC, when I go a different way. The PFL called me, the season is amazing, four fights in a short time is good, too. One million dollars and a good contract.

You only live a short time… and you are dead a long time.

In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you’ll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

I have a short time to play this game. I’m trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

What I noticed, in the short time I’ve been in Chickenfoot, we wound up doing a tour and a live DVD with basically that scoop sound. I was using OD2 for that entire tour. When we went out on this new tour and made the new record, I used the amp in an entirely different way. It was already modified.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn’t stand the fact that we’d always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

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.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

I only worked with Rafa Benitez for a short time, but he’s a great manager, and he showed it from the first moment he came. He worked with the players and made us a better team. He’s a good person, always trying to help players out.

When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I’m really sorry about.

It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn’t, and had no success with it. It’s a practical solution to just be yourself.

It’s one of those things: you can’t really control how much you play or when you play, but when your number’s called, I think if you make the most of your opportunities in this league, that’s what makes good players. That’s what I’ve tried to do in my short time being a starter, and good things have come from it.