Top 40 Shortest Quotes

In this post, you will find great Shortest Quotes from famous people, such as Roy Blunt, Henry IV of England, Ram Nath Kovind, Samuel Smiles, Alvin Leung. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Roy Blunt

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody‘s word about them.

Henry IV of England

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

Ram Nath Kovind

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

Bo Innovation is there for anyone who comes to Hong Kong and wants to learn about Hong Kong in the shortest amount of time.

Alvin Leung

One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.

Jyoti Amge

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I’m amazed that people don’t sniff everything.

Richard E. Grant

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world’s shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Gene Fowler

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.

Fumio Sasaki

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Heather Donahue

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

George Mikes

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance – usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

Regina Brett

The desire to get from point A to point B in the shortest, most efficient amount of time without ever wandering off path, can mean you miss out on those happy accidents that push you further and faster in a direction you never even considered.

Sarah Cooper

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Ehud Barak

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn’t fit and the shoes didn’t fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn’t prevent me from working.

Devon Aoki

I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off – they were empty anyway – and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.

Jack Monroe

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it’s also the shortest shot.

J. J. Redick

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

Ranvir Shorey

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

I’ve been really fortunate to do several shows on Broadway; the longest run I’ve done is nine months, and that was ‘Porgy and Bess.’ The shortest run I’ve done was about a month and a half: my first Broadway lead in ‘The Scottsboro Boys.’

Joshua Henry

At home and in church – which I didn’t go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians – they would ask us, ‘What’s the shortest verse in the Bible?’ and I was the one who always said ‘John 11:35′ straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me.

Benjamin Clementine

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, ‘Look at me!’ – just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.

Kay Cannon

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Archimedes

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.

Crystal Dunn

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William Cullen Bryant

It’s a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you’re pursuing that, you’re an idiot. You’re a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Lewis Black

I would love to write a screenplay for ‘Badlands’ one day. I don’t think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don’t even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don’t have the patience.

Halsey

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes‘ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

Pythagoras

Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.

Matt Mullenweg

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I heard Skip James, and it pierced me. It felt like punk rock to me, real and raw. It was just one guitar, so simple yet so much expression. I wanted to feel and express like that, to take the shortest path to get to an emotion.

Fantastic Negrito

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you’re going to get all cut up in a movie.

Campbell Scott

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

Rachel Johnson

We’re all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I’m just going to let time dictate how Jim’s future evolves.

Thurston Moore

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

Demetri Martin

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Stephen Ambrose

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Brennan Manning

Top 40 Shortest Quotes

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