Top Short-Term Quotes
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Nicholas Sparks
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi Annan
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
Larry Craig
Mel Martinez 
Harry Browne 
Barney Frank 
Barbara Jordan 
Buzz Aldrin 
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Jay Rockefeller 
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
K. Eric Drexler 
49% of people like this quote
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard
49% of people like this quote
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Keith Henson
48% of people like this quote
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela
47% of people like this quote
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
John Hull
47% of people like this quote
The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
Alexandra Paul
46% of people like this quote
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright
42% of people like this quote
This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank
41% of people like this quote
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva
41% of people like this quote
Popular Short-Term Authors
Barack ObamaBarbara JordanBarney FrankTom StoppardNicholas SparksFred ThompsonKofi AnnanJ. William FulbrightKeith HensonNelson MandelaJeffrey SachsTony SnowGeorge WillAlexandra PaulBruce Babbitt
Paul FarmerK. Eric DrexlerJohn HullTimothy LearyRaul GrijalvaLarry CraigMichael SchudsonHarry BrowneMel MartinezMike RoundsHannah MoreChristina RomerJay RockefellerBuzz Aldrin
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