Quotes about Shorten

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. Votes: 4

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Bill Shorten should - either knows that or at least he should know it and for him to change the conversation by proposing - by suggesting a proposal significantly more adventurous than where the conversation has been up until now was a very unhelpful intervention. Votes: 3

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. Votes: 2

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time. Votes: 2

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. Votes: 2

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. Votes: 2

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off? Votes: 2

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. Votes: 2

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. Votes: 2

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. Votes: 2

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. Votes: 2

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult. Votes: 2

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. Votes: 2

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. Votes: 2

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. Votes: 2

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name. Votes: 2

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. Votes: 2

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten. Votes: 2

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries. Votes: 2

Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives. Votes: 0

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. Votes: 0

Fumes of wine shorten the long road. Votes: 0

I'm not a fan of capris. They actually shorten my legs. Votes: 0

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Votes: 0

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life. Votes: 0

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny. Votes: 0

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. Votes: 0

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. Votes: 0

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. Votes: 0

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit. Votes: 0

If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me. Votes: 0

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. Votes: 0

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. Votes: 0

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit? Votes: 0

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. Votes: 0

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman. Votes: 0

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing. Votes: 0

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.) Votes: 0

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Votes: 0

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs. Votes: 0

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute. Votes: 0

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers. Votes: 0

You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently. Votes: 0

It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place. Votes: 0

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights. Votes: 0

What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them. Votes: 0