Short Shrift Quotes & Sayings

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most. — Andy Paula

It is natural if you feel as strongly as most decent people do about racial discrimination to welcome books that give it short shrift; but to assess books on their racial attitude rather than their literary value, and still more to look on books as ammunition in the battle, is to take a further and still more dangerous step from literature-as-morality to literature-as-propaganda - a move toward conditions in which, hitherto, literary art has signally failed to thrive.

("Didacticism in Modern Dress" from Only Connect (2nd ed., 1980). — John Rowe Townsend

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm. — Stefania Mattana

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger. — Tina Sloan

Risk is the most intense road. — Gustavo Cerati

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen. — Colum McCann

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams. — Curtis Jackson

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp. — John D. Rockefeller

The average gym junkie today is all about appearance, not ability. Flash, not function. These men may have big, artificially pumped up limbs, but all that the size is in the muscle tissue; their
tendons and joints are weak . Ask the average muscleman to do a deep one-leg squat-ass-to-floor-style-and his knee ligaments would probably snap in two. What strength most bodybuilders do have, they cannot use in a coordinated way; if you asked them to walk on their hands they'd fall flat on their faces. — Paul Wade

I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes. — Louise Nurding

Are you really speechless or has the vodka finally impaired your ability to function like a normal human? — Heidi McLaughlin

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. — Thomas S. Monson

It was one of those perfect Autumn days so common in stories and rare in the real world. — Patrick Rothfuss

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. — Benjamin Disraeli

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated. — Joseph Goebbels

Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done. — Benjamin Carson

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins. — Jodi Kantor

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job. — Lea Thompson

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
— Poppy Z. Brite