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Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry Blofeld
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
View quotes by Tony Snow
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
View quotes by Timothy Leary
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
View quotes by Carl Sagan
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
View quotes by Nelson Mandela
The shortest distance between two points is through Hell.
View quotes by Brian Clark
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
View quotes by Victor Borge
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
View quotes by Will Rogers
Mother always told me my day was coming, but I never realised I'd end up being the shortest knight of the year.
View quotes by Gordon Richards
Term, holidays, term, holidays, til we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
View quotes by C S Lewis
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Harper's Magazine, 1949)
View quotes by Bernard De Voto
They might have to redefine the term rocket science.
View quotes by Clive Everton
I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent. [Stewart Downing]
View quotes by Sven Goran Eriksson
Have a feel for the medium and long-term trends in the field that you are in.
View quotes by Lloyd Dorfman
Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.
View quotes by Tessa Jowell
You shouldn't have a long-term strategy anymore, because you won't be able to move fast enough.
View quotes by Orit Gadish
For me there is a mission for this country moving forward - there are big long-term decisions we've got to take as a nation.
View quotes by Gordon Brown
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management.
View quotes by Emanuel Azenberg
I've had flings with women before, though my long-term relationships have always been with men. I was pleasantly surprised when I fell for Alice!
View quotes by Rachel Williams
'It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.'
View quotes by Bob Geldof
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