Quotes About Shortest Life

#1. Every life has a purpose. The longest life has many stories to tell of the opportunities to witness God's hand. The shortest life holds the eternal treasure of impacting lives as a testimony of God's creation because of a precious heartbeat.

Amy E. Tobin

#2. The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#4. Boys are cute, but food is cuter

Tori Amos

#5. They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Philip Plait

#6. Do things you don't want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It's not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.

Rory Vaden

#7. It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Francis Bacon

#8. From the point of view of eternity, life is the shortest moment

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Brennan Manning

#10. I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.

Phil Schiller

#11. Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Pay great attention to those who love you, and love those who hate you.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!

D.S. Mixell

#14. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Mark Twain

#16. I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

Trent Dilfer

#17. Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

Pope Pius X

#18. Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.

Renee Carlino

#19. When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.

Marcus Aurelius

#20. We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

Sophocles

#21. The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#22. I rolled my eyes at Tasty Neck Girl. Oh, get over it. Would have been the shortest relationship of your life.

Kiersten White

#23. Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

Lore Segal

#24. She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life.

Juliet Marillier

#25. It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

Emma Donoghue

#26. Even the mantis has stopped praying

Dean Cavanagh

#27. Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Peter Carey

#28. Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Haruki Murakami

#29. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#30. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Anthony De Mello

#31. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.

Susumu Tonegawa