While eschewing emotion - and its companion vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side they will trust your decisions.

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time which nevertheless seems endless.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

I wish life was not so short he thought. languages take such a time and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I have made this letter longer than usual only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems so that chronic poverty ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

People with clear written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

For one swallow does not make a summer nor does one day and so too one day or a short time does not make a man blessed and happy.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

When I was about 13 or 14 I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11 000 higher than 1997.

I'd never been a teacher before and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.