I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
History proves that all dictatorships all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings mankind has not devised anything superior.
Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government in the short run it is among the most fragile.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Be true to the game because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game and in some ways that's about life too.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak He is strong.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms but even at its best it is short-sighted muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
We can do things the cheap way the simple way for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or we can make the extra effort do the hard work absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water but that's about it.
In a funny way poems are suited to modern life. They're short they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines and a poem takes less time than an article.
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly except shorter and Jewish.
Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.
When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
In short is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?