T Quotes
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“The shortest answer is doing.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.”
“The shortest definition of nationalism is that it brings patriotism to extremism.”
“The shortest definition of religion: interruption.”
“The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.”
“The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.”
“The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.”
Source: Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary
“The shortest distance between two people is a smile.”
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
“The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.”
“The shortest distance between two souls is an open heart.”
“The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.”
“The shortest distance to leadership is service.”
Source: Keys for Leadership
“The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.”
“The shortest follies are the best.”
“The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]”
“The shortest life of any I’d ever lived. The shortest, the most important, the most heartbreaking of lives. The life that would forever define me. The life that had finally tied me to one star, to one planet, to one small family of strangers. A little more time… would that be so wrong?”
Source: The Host
“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them.”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them. When individuals agree to do whatever to fill their stomachs, there will be little left of human ideals. Dungeons, Chains, Whistleblowers and sticks in the hands of Cowards come into play to starve them, not to let them even have a loaf of bread.”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”
“The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.”
“The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.”
“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.”
“The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.”
Source: The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Publish'd in His Life-time. In Two Volumes
“The shortest, quietest smile is a tiny display of muscle power that can vanquish the mighty agitation of someone's mind.”
“The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!”
“The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.”
“The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.”
“The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.”
“The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.”
“The shortest route to manifesting a better life is to be in a state of mindful appreciation of the present, acceptance of the past and excitement for the future.”
“The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“The shortest sentence that adequately describes life is as long as the universe.”
“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”
“The Shortest Success Mantra
for this short life is Move
out from your Comfort zone into
your Action zone.”
“The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.”
“The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.”
“The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.”
“The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.”
Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,
“The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“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.”
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
“The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“The shortest way to know what the future holds is to experience it in real time first hand.”
Source: Sandworms of Dune
“The shortness of High Renaissance is typical of the fate of all the periods of classical style in modern times; since the end of feudalism the epochs of stability have been nothing but short episodes. The rigorous formalism of the High Renaissance has certainly remained a constant temptation for later generations, but, apart from short, mostly sophisticated, and educationally inspired movements, it has never prevailed again. On the other hand, it has proved to be the most important undercurrent in modern art; for even though the strictly formalistic style, based on the typical and the normative, was unable to hold its own against the fundamental naturalism of the modern age, nevertheless, after the Renaissance, a return to the incoherent, cumulative, co-ordinating formal methods of the Middle Ages was no longer possible. Since the Renaissance we think of a work of painting or sculpture as a concentrated picture of reality seen from a single and uniform point of view - a formal structure that arises from the tension between the wide world and the undivided subject opposed to the world. This polarity between art and the world was mitigated from time to time, but never again abolished. It represents the real inheritance of Renaissance.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.”
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.”