Short Honoured Quotes & Sayings

The restaurant business is robust and successful precisely because individual restaurants are vulnerable and short-lived. Taleb wishes that society honoured ruined entrepreneurs as richly as it honours fallen soldiers. — Matt Ridley

Believe, Believe, Believe.
Anything is very possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She was pregnant. Lightning had not only struck once, it had struck twice. Against all odds, Keisha was pregnant again. — Leo Sullivan

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. — Matthew Arnold

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker. — Jonathan Meades

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide. — Janet Gallagher Nestor

You stole five cars. Instead of going into prison or juvenile detention, you endured nothing more than volunteer work. Now that you are paying back your legal fees, which were not inconsiderable, perhaps you need to suffer more in your service. It's good for the soul."
"Suffering is good for the soul? You're sitting in your cute little office drinking your gross-ass tea that smells like bacon-"
"It's Lapsang souchong."
"It's disgusting. You're drinking disgusting tea and writing homilies in your room-temperature office while I"m dying in there. I don't see you suffering."
"I have suffered. My suffering has ended."
"Did you find Jesus?"
"No, I found you. — Tiffany Reisz

Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they. Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it. — Thomas More

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. — James Shapiro

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order. — Anatole France

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it. — Jennifer Donnelly