If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Benjamin Franklin
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Basically we held the ball to shorten up the game since we were in foul trouble.
Tony Martinucci
Talked about a lot of options, including the possibility of having to shorten the race.
Mike Helton
Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.
David Shore
But I think if there were a lot of criticism, then it would shorten his honeymoon, if its seen that he's ignoring them.
Stephen Clarkson
I was anxious all night. I wouldn't mind coaching in a game like that every Friday except it would shorten my life by a considerable number of years.
Scott Young
From what we've seen of him and what we've heard about him, he's very well organized. He's been very successful. He realizes they need to shorten the game, not beat themselves and cut down on mistakes. From what we've seen … their kids seem real excited. They hustle to the football and play hard.
Paul Ellis
We make our own icing with powdered sugar, shortening, chocolate and flavorings. The sugared ones we while they're hot and the iced ones when they're cool, ... Sometimes the donuts don't come out perfect enough to sell. We eat those.
Linda Warren
The race committee did a superb job. They had to shorten the course once or twice, solve problems and keep things moving.
John Hyatt
I've been trying to shorten my swing a bit more, ... I'm also trying to see the ball more. That's the only change.
Javier Valentin
With this spacecraft, we never had a quiet cruise to Mars. We didn't do just basic maintenance, we conducted major science and engineering calibrations to test how well the instruments were doing in space. These activities help shorten the learning curve for us when we get to Mars and start mapping.
Cindy Schulz
If anyone would have had an impact on him it would have been Michael, I'm not so sure he didn't shorten Michael's career.
Ron Rothstein
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
W. J. Vogel
I keep reading it is too long a summer but we keep having sell-outs at the matches. I think it would be crazy to pay too much attention to suggestions we need to shorten the summer.
Richie Benaud
There were a couple things that kept her from starting. Mostly it was injuries. It was that and trying to get a rotation down. Sometimes we have a lull where we can't score, and it's nice to get a scorer in there. She's really as starter. We've had to shorten her game a little bit to get her in there, but she's a very good player.
Gordy Presnell
Over the longer term I expect our gross margins will benefit as these products mature and installation cycles shorten.
Tim Guertin
When you're playing against a team with guys 6-8 and 6-9 and one of the top players in the state (Werner), you've got to try and shorten the game. We can't play with them up and down the court. I won't second-guess my decision. It's a game of possessions, and we were just hoping to keep it close going into the last quarter.
Lou Piccola
That's the most important thing, to shorten the field for the offense.
Brett Keisel
We were trying to find ways to lengthen the carrot and shorten the stick. We were looking for ways to get landowners involved in what everybody agrees is an important effort.
Peter Adler
We talked about that we needed to shorten up our swings. We tried, but obviously we didn't do a very good job about it.
Lamar Simmons
With the winning line in sight the last thing they (England) expected was that Australia -- aggressive, positive, confronting Australia -- might be prepared to shorten the game.
Peter Roebuck
Our position is that there's no economic case for shortening the release pattern. We haven't allowed it to happen yet and that policy will continue. We think theaters are the natural launching pad for movies, that theatrical runs create the buzz that sells videos later on.
Melanie Bell
Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.
Jeff Galloway
A lot of it is being comfortable at the plate. I think early in the season we had some guys who were a little nervous, trying to live up to that No. 1 preseason ranking. Now we're shortening up our swings and making better contact.
Carson Kainer
It will shorten the design process and get the customer to market faster.
Sheldon Yourist
On the one hand, we want to shorten the process, but on the other, we have to give time to prepare for elections, and so we agreed they would be in March.
Yosef Lapid
We'll talk to them about shortening the tower. It should be [done] by the book.
Daniel Leefson
Consumers can find out if there are any trans fats in an item by reading the ingredients. If shortening, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil or hydrogenated vegetable oil are listed, the food still contains a small amount of trans fat.
Cynthia Sass
I was just trying to shorten up with two strikes and put the ball in play up the middle, ... If I get jammed, I get jammed. Close your eyes and luckily the bat hit the ball. Swing, hopefully hit it.
Sean Burroughs
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
We now have to be more methodical, look for more back-door cuts and things. We have to shorten games.
Darin Johnson
Once they're in the new terminal, it will just be a matter of about a mile to either end. So, it'll shorten the taxi time. That's better for the passengers, saves a lot of money on fuel. As the prices go up, that's becoming more and more important.
Mark Crittenden
On the first one, I tried to shorten up with two strikes and put the ball in the air. The wind took care of the rest.
Trevor Rutkowski
[C&W said the deal would help reduce its development costs and shorten the time needed to introduce next-generation services.] We are absolutely convinced that it is going to lower our cost, ... We will be able to pick and choose from [Cisco] what will fit in the Hong Kong market.
Roy Wilson
They can move fairly quickly underground. They'll shorten up. They can get out of the way fairly quickly, but they're not as active as a night crawler.
William Fender
The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys, / They shorten tedious nights.
Thomas Campion
We try to shorten the growing season by planting some 104-105-day hybrids that help us save two weeks of irrigation. That's a savings of $10-20/acre. I'm glad seed companies are looking at developing more drought-tolerant hybrids as well as shorter-season corn.
David Ford
We did increase the budget by about 35 percent, hopefully we will be OK, ... It's hard with the prices going up and down, we did put more money in. It's hard to save money on fuel because most of our money is spent on bus routes. So you either have to shorten your routes or have less stops. That means that kids have to go farther to get to the bus.
Randy Reid
The last couple of games we've been trying to hit too many long fly balls and home runs. We worked on shortening up our swing and going the other way.
Riley Tubbs
We are going to pretty much play everyone. We not going to change. If I feel that we need a change, maybe we would shorten the bench.
Terry White
The general rule is that law firms are dropping names and shortening them to become like corporate brand names, like Coca-Cola.
Stephen Barrett
When we play them, we have to change. We have to have the mentality to try and shorten the game. This is the one game that we try to play differently.
Melissa Smart
This is our fight. This is the fight that defines us as a party and is the most worthwhile fight we're going to face. Having for-profit health care does nothing to shorten the wait list for those of us who can't afford to pay the fee, it only lengthens them.
Jennifer Howard
Little kids know that food is made in the leaves. Do they forget that when they grow up? This is going to shorten the lives of these trees.
Vincent Cotrone
He actually got ahead of Church in the count. When we get two strikes on us, we try to shorten our swing and just put it in play. Ninety percent of the time when you do that, you're going to get a good, hard ball hit somewhere.
Chris Cauble
People would be driving down Wickham Road anyway to get to the other store. This will only shorten their trip.
Cindy Dittmer
At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.
Ben Johnson (baseball Player)
They want you to come out and play them, that's fine. They had a two-point lead, had some momentum. We're short some people with some injuries. I thought shortening the game played to our advantage.
Bailey Harris
We didn't have any turnovers. Obviously, we have to do a better job of getting our offense the ball and shortening the field for them.
Kailee Wong
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. -Oliver Cromwell.
Ambrose Bierce
The Alpine glaciers are highly sensitive to climate changes. As temperatures rise, they melt and shorten.
Hanspeter Holzhauser
Every conventional naming book gives the guideline, 'Don't forget to look at the initials,' ... Even if the second study contradicts the first, and having bad initials is not going to shorten your life span, it could make what there is of your life less pleasant. And who wants to foist that on innocent children?
Pamela Redmond Satran
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