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My career was very short lived.
View quotes by Kitty Carlisle

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
View quotes by Abraham Lincoln

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
View quotes by Catherine Crowe

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
View quotes by Joseph Addison

Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly: if she's fair, betrayed. (An Essay on Woman)
View quotes by Mary Leapor

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
View quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short
View quotes by Bishop Jeremy Taylor

But yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety, but rather famish them amid their plenty, making them red and pale with fresh variety, ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty! a summer´s day will seem an hour but short, being wasted in such time beguiling sport. (venus´n´adonis, poem)
View quotes by William Shakespeare

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
View quotes by Sydney Harris

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
View quotes by Willa Cather

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
View quotes by Ouida

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
View quotes by Christian Gellert

I want to do this and be like Madonna. She's lived her life.
View quotes by Avril Lavigne

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
View quotes by Sam Mendes

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
View quotes by Beverly Sills

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today
View quotes by John Dryden

I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.
View quotes by Charles Keeping

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
View quotes by Dwight Moody



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