A Quotes
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“A short-frocked edition of Charles also regards them placidly; a perambulator edition is squeaking; a third edition is expected shortly. Nature is turning out Wilcoxes in this peaceful abode, so that they may inherit the earth.”
Source: Howards End
“A short horse is soone currid.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772
“A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.”
“A short list of things you need to know if you want to make sense of any of the rest of it.
1. You know all the times that people say stuff & it sounds like it's absolutely & positively true & then they tell you that You Better Listen if you know what's good for you mister (or Miss, as the case may be) Well, in about 100% of all cases, someone else told them that the very same way & they believed it & now they want you to, too. Don't. That's it for the list. Thank you.
—Need to Know”
Source: Theories of Everything
“A short, quick gasp escapes her trembling lips, spots dancing in her vision. Hunching until she is small, silent the scream remains, as blackness and pain hold her prisoner against her father’s rage”
Source: Hers To Save Complete Series
“A short reign does not spare the masses.”
“A short retirement urges a sweet return.”
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
“A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.”
“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
Source: Skeleton Crew
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
“A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.”
“A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”
“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
“A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.”
“A short story is like a kiss in the dark.”
“A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.”
“A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine”
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
“A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.”
“A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.”
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
“A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa”
“A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters”
“A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.”
“A short stroll through nature does wonders to reveal the beauty of the world around us.”
“A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.”
“A Short Testament
Whatever harm I may have done
In all my life in all your wide creation
If I cannot repair it
I beg you to repair it,
And then there are all the wounded
The poor the deaf the lonely and the old
Whom I have roughly dismissed
As if I were not one of them.
Where I have wronged them by it
And cannot make amends
I ask you
To comfort them to overflowing,
And where there are lives I may have withered around me,
Or lives of strangers far or near
That I've destroyed in blind complicity,
And if I cannot find them
Or have no way to serve them,
Remember them. I beg you to remember them
When winter is over
And all your unimaginable promises
Burst into song on death's bare branches.”
Source: Living Things: Collected Poems
“A short time after tidying, their space is a disorganized mess. The cause is not lack of skills but rather lack of awareness and the inability to make tidying a regular habit.”
Source: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.”
“A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.”
“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”
“A short tongue prolongs life.”
“A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place to teach them how to get boys. And they don't ask us fashion advice questions; they're too sophisticated. They're inspired by what they see and they think, 'These people at this magazine represent what I want to be, beyond shoes and makeup.'”
“A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.”
Source: Dark Triumph
“A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.”
Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and
“A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.”
“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”
Source: Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar
“A Shortcut to Mushrooms.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“A shorter life is still a life, Henrietta Abbott,’ she said. ‘I’ve thought about this a great deal. A shorter life burns briefly but brightly . . . A bright star.”
Source: The Secret of Nightingale Wood
“A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.”
“A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.”
“A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.”
“A shout from far up the river sent a chill across his body and he un-hung the musket from his shoulder. It wasn’t a light firearm, weighing twelve pounds, but with the recently developed percussion lock, it was reliable—which is why it was indispensable for Jean’s expeditions both on the Mississippi and Barataria. It was—like Jean—tall and slender, elegant and yet simple, far-reaching and precise, and requiring particular attention to cleanliness.”
Source: The Adventuress
“A shout of ecstasy shakes the land of sadness,
And the soul of light wants to erase the history of night.
Every moment, a teacher, a guide, a sage in the voyage of life.
If the soul has no light, even in sunlight, it loses the spirit of life.
but with a soul of light, even at night, you see a thousand stars,
exploding in the festival of light.
There it begins, the play of galaxies in the midnight,
For the soul has woken to the song of ecstasy,
As the veins in deep, carry the rivers of light.
Be the sun and the stars, so you will reach
the shores of light in the wintry winds, in the dense nights,
When sadness cloaks all around.”
“A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.”
Source: Poetical works