Quotes about Shorting

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Horace Mann

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Seneca

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Confucius

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

G. K. Chesterton

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

Ayn Rand

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)

Pablo Neruda

In the short and medium term... the next TV deal is critically important.

Peter Kenyon

They argue that these loans are a tool for the poor to help them with short-term needs. The only tool they offer is a shovel that digs them deeper into debt.

Victor Elias

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

But our expectation is that these heightened financing requirements will prove short-lived, as the economy eventually strengthens, and as the pressures for increased federal outlays stemming from the attacks of Sept. 11 subside.

Peter Fisher

The market is now in a highly overbought condition, which would lead me to believe that some short-term weakness may ensue.

Dale Doelling

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alec Guinness

We had a very short period to investigate but our information indicated that their action was imminent.

Joern Bro

There was a lot of patting ourselves on the back in that speech, but it was pretty short on substance.

Sen Vi Simpson

In the past, we have started 5-0, 6-0, 8-0 or something like that, and then we fall short come playoff time. My hope is that we can turn that around this season and use this learning period to propel us later on.

Jim Griffiths

If the opportunity arises, take it. Because our motto is Life is too short.' Life is so short. We wish we were 20 years younger right now.

Sally Sullivan

Claire played a very tough match. She played four hard games, and Claire was finally able to counter-attack her off her short shots and win the fifth game. It was a good effort on her part.

Gail Ramsay

I like what I do. I was hoping to be a closer. I have a short memory.

Frank Gonzalez

It is nasty and brutish without being short.

Anthony Lake

In the short term we could see a knee-jerk reaction higher.

Lawrence Eagles

It's a short-term phenomenon, and it does tighten the market a little, but it happens every year.

Glyn Lawcock

Earnings so far have been fairly robust. And if you look at projections, the short-term looks pretty good too.

John Butters

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Luciano De Crescenzo

Do natural-gas prices at $7 mean less drilling in La Plata County? The short answer is no. We have plans that look five to seven years down the road. If the price goes up today and down tomorrow, that won't have an impact on what we do here tomorrow.

Dan Larson

I'm very happy to win my first world short course title. I've backed up very well from the Commonwealth Games.

Jessicah Schipper

In the short term, there is uncertainty regarding share placements. Since August 31, fund-raising activities by various companies have raised about HK$22 billion from the market, so that is an overhang.

Louis Wong

He is warning the markets that the Federal Open Market Committee will very likely continue to raise short-term interest rates, given the continued growth in the economy.

Preston Martin

Corporate commitments of hard assets, capital, employees, and managers fall short of what is needed to meet revenue targets.

Jim Hemerling

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term.

Dan Ahrens

High pay is partially due to competition for executives and being able to keep them, ... They know other companies in that field pay that kind of money. If they don?t the person is going to be gone in a very short period of time.

John Laughlin

Some of the concerns out there about CPI hitting 3% ... at least in the short term look overdone.

Ross Walker

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Grace Young

We're always making fun of him, but the funny thing is there are 24- and 25-year-old guys trying to do what he's doing, and they're coming up short.

Cortez Hankton

As we get closer to the potential March 17 deadline, people who think we're going to get a wartime rally may try to get ahead of it, but I think any sort of rally we get will be short-lived.

Romeo Dator

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Bruce Steinbecker

The only two things that have been shown to work are caffeine - the equivalent of two cups - and a short nap.

Darrel Drobnich

We tried to relocate, but it was so hard on short notice.

Nick Rhodes

Normally we rely on a lot of it moving out down the river to export points as we bring the new crop in. In the short run they will have to build piles on the ground and hope that it doesn't rain.

Rick Tolman

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul Vi

On the high frequency, rain is a concern, but because these distances are so short, they should never see any outage due to rain. Almost to the point where it would take an act of God, and if it's raining that hard, there probably are other things you should be worrying about.

Paul Lefebvre

Sometimes, they just get afraid to leave, and they will do things that don't always make sense, like run, even though they were going to be out within a short period of time.

Don Abel

We were running short routes all night and we saw their corners biting up.

Greg Jenkins

It seems that since they were teenagers, their actions were always somehow connected. And here we have the latest, with Yao getting the short end of the stick for a change.

Brook Larmer

The ability to observe what happens to electronic energy in DNA on such short time scales also extends the hope that methods such as ours can finally determine how DNA is damaged by UV light in the first place.

Bern Kohler

When you play the No.1 team in the state, and they probably are the No. 1 team in the state, and you play them like that, it gives you a lot of good feelings. We had a chance to win this ballgame and just came up a little bit short.

Curtis Higgins

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

Dan Brown

Our research suggests that current IBM customers are considering other vendors and certainly Dell is on that short list.

Bill Fearnley

In the first half we did a good job of handling it, but in a short span in the second half we just kept turning it over.

Richard Thurin

We haven't been able to pick up third-and-short running all year. But I think our offensive line is finally coming together.

Brodie Croyle

Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wanted to do. I wish this case was about what a success story we had, but it's not.

Tim Albright

The market is overbought short term. People are looking for an excuse to sell. That came in the form of Secretary Rice raising significant concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

Michael James

Such strikes are never good for the economy. But in the past strikes haven't halted an economic upswing because in general they are too short to create lasting damage.

Joerg Kraemer

We played 100 minutes and came up short. That's the first time we've been down in a game this season, and I thought we responded brilliantly. Now we'll continue to move forward. Our goal is still to win the Central Region championship.

Kirk Nelson

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

Debbie Meyer

What this storm has done has wrecked the lives and the economy of what could arguably be one of the poorest areas of America with one of the blackest populations. As I look around, whether it's Iowa or Arizona, at the far-flung places to which people are being sent, for the short term at least, I think it's going to be a national lesson in diversity.

Steve Suitts

Our biggest concern after one game is our pass defense, ... We rallied to the ball well, but we have to do a better job of shutting down the short stuff.

Mike Gardner

Our view is that the G8 was a great opportunity. Although there was some short-term pain, there will be long-term gain.

Andrew Johnston

We're just overwhelmed by the generosity of Great Falls citizens and those in the surrounding area. We're really pleased with how much money we've raised in this short amount of time.

Bob James

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Hans Christian Andersen

I have not seen the quantity and quality of the magnitude that I saw in Iraq. There are a few anthropologists in the world that have seen that - that much trauma in such a short period of time.

Joan Bytheway

Foreign central banks will continue to buy Treasuries, so I am a little bullish. Yields may drop below 4.30 percent in the short-term.

Satoshi Asai

Everything short of delivery (will remain).

Tom Chakurda

I thought we battled well but we came up short on a few opportunities. But those things are correctable, and we'll work on correcting it.

Joe Rapczynski

In households where nobody goes to work, both money and self-esteem can be in short supply. This can mean a lack of positive role models and result in generation after generation getting stuck in the benefits trap.

John Hutton

Some of the bees have long beaks, and some of them have short beaks. Some flowers are deep; some are shallow.

Carolyn Lidge

They' haven't veered course from the beginning - the U.S. banks have stuck by (South Korea) and kept rolling over the short-term loans.

Robert Albertson

If something has been prepared for sea (shipping) and suddenly it needs to be flown, then the cargo probably needs to be prepared for flying very differently than it was prepared for sea. We have to put this together at very short notice. It strikes us that to do planning in advance would be more sensible.

Tony Bauckham

We got a couple of timely baskets to keep that short lead there at the end.

Jim Whitesell

In the long term, Iraq should be self-sufficient. But in the short term -- three to five years -- Iraq's going to need a lot of help.

Rachel Bronson

There's likely to be some short-term disappointment, given that people don't know the logic behind this potential acquisition.

Chris Steward

You have to be short and concise with them.

John Hogan

Even if the sales were entirely lawful, these practices raise serious governance concerns and suggest that senior executives may be operating on a short-term horizon.

Julie Gozan

We can expect volatility in the short and intermediate sectors to remain at lofty levels.

Atsushi Mizuno

Easter breaks for many people will include short-haul trips, where alternative modes of transport are much more practical. Short-haul travel is particularly polluting because the take-off and landing segments, when most fuel is burnt, represent a large proportion of the flight plan.

Richard Dyer

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Sharon Johnson

The narrowness in the market is troubling and that probably means that the short term is not going to be all that exciting.

Scott Wittman

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.

Timothy Leary

We were looking for a coach who can bring together a team at short notice to be ready to take on the world champions.

Malcolm Speed

We simply don't know the extent of the economic and infrastructural damage in the Southeast, ... Of course, gas and heating fuel are going to be higher, and transportation of all goods will cost more in the short term.

Peter Morici

He never, ever bragged about his accomplishments. What drove him was that he had tremendous empathy for others. He was short in stature, but a giant in heart. I think God gave him an extra dose of optimism.

Quint Studer

The Fed is sticking to its guns. They took pains to address the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but they also made it clear that they see it as a short-term event from the economic perspective.

Robert Walters

Boy, did you send me a hell of a football player. This kid's a card or two short of a full deck, but can he hit.

Bill Mallory

It's simply that there was too much of a gain in too short a period of time. Investors are looking for any pointers to get out of the market for now.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

I can see the bill raising revenue in the short run, and maybe some revenue from overseas will be brought back. But there's no guarantee, and it's unclear that the money would go for new investment or anything that would stimulate jobs in the short run.

Joel Friedman

Sometimes, we get a slug of vehicles back in one month, which is more than we can do in one month. And then the next time, we're working short on Friday because the vehicles haven't come in.

Robert Bohn

He is aware of people going in there. He's very short of breath.

Phil Hughes

We've made it a practice to make sure the guys are comfortable playing short or whatever their position is in the infield. Then we move them around so they get familiar with other spots.

Benny Looper

That book was too short. I should have picked a longer book.

Pedro Sanchez

My goal is to help small districts in the short term, ... Once the cap hits 15 percent it would be permanent but I'm realistic about the legislative process and how it works. If it comes down to whether or not it will pass I'll have to talk to everyone involved in my district and see if a compromise can't be reached.

Brett Davis

Against Davis, our level of play went up a notch. The guys got a lot of the jitters out in the morning and responded really, really well in such a short time since we played back-to back matches. I was happy for the freshmen to get their dual matches out of the way.

George Husack

Short-term, (the poisoning) will have a big impact on the locals but long-term, it could once again be one of the best still-water trout fisheries anywhere in the country.

Rob Anderson

We believe MDC has greater risk of earnings decline due to lower margins from its short land supply and exposure to markets where affordability is stretched.

Daniel Oppenheim

Chemicals pumped into Earth's atmosphere decades ago still are affecting ozone levels today. This problem was a long time in the making, and because of the persistence of these chlorine compounds, there is no short-term fix.

Sherwood Roland

I was in the mood where it should have been a long walk off a short pier, but I actually went for a long walk on a long road.

Grant Thomas