Top 20 Short Phrase Quotes
#1. The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
M. V. Heberden
#2. Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.
Tibullus
#4. I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
Jeff Tweedy
#5. Meet me at the pitcher pouring a thousand streams." Alice's phone was probably tapped. The strange, short phrase should confuse anyone who snooped on it. Anyone other than Alice.
Deva Long
#6. In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.
Andy Miller
#7. In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
Stephen Greenblatt
#8. I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.
Dalai Lama
#9. "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
Ezra Taft Benson
#10. Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#11. While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.
Stefano Tonchi
#12. Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
Nicole Krauss
#13. Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes.
Simon Black
#14. Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.
Angelica Hopes
#15. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.
Gary Dahl
#18. Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.
Eric Maisel
#19. I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
Henry Clay
#20. The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
