source: Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.492

topic: Religious, Faith Religion, Departed, Short Time, Church And State

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Song, Drinking, People, Short Time

You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.

- Lana Del Rey

topic: Trust No One, Different Lifestyles, Ends, Short Time

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

- Francis Maitland Balfour

topic: Animal, Simple, Leaving, Tadpoles, Short Time

Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.

- Bernardino Ramazzini

topic: Running, Health, Blood, Short Time, Blacksmiths

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.82, Macmillan

topic: Boyfriend, Fun, Husband, Short Time, Drinking Too Much

Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

- Stephanie Gilmore

topic: Sports, Moving, Winning, Short Time, Past Success

If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

- Ernst Rohm

source: Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

topic: Enemy, Nazism, Return, Short Time

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

- Donald Keyhoe

topic: Race, Air, People, Manhattan Project, Short Time

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

- Cissy Houston

topic: Daughter, Mother, Proud, Short Time, Wonderful Person

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Always Be Happy, Short Time

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Short Time

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

- Danny Elfman

topic: Knowing, Challenges, Would Be, Short Time, Very Famous

As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

- Shakti Gawain

source: Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Old Habits, Long, Trying, Short Time, Futility

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Past, Yesterday, Giving, Short Time

One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.

- Sara Henderson

topic: Optimistic, Years, Land, Short Time, Things I've Learned

The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes. Rather, at that moment the initiated disciples of the Lord 'passed', as we have been taught, 'from flesh to spirit' by the transformation of their senses, which the Spirit wrought in them, and so they saw that ineffable light, when and as much as the Holy Spirit's power granted them to do so.

- Gregory Palamas

source: "The homilies".

topic: Christian, Eye, Light, Short Time, Transfiguration

A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."