#shorten

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #shorten




I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.


Christiaan Barnard


#believe #create #discoveries #doing #extend

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.


Gil Kane


#big #big mouth #develop #harry #i

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.


Cy Young


#called #ever #fellows #finally #me

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.


Robert South


#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.


Herbert Spencer


#lives #our #our lives #shortened #universally

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.


Barbara Corcoran


#especially #loan #make #off #over

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.


Quentin Crisp


#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.


Lucy Powell


#brown #economy #effective #fiscal #get

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.


Constantin Stanislavski


#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged