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short run

«Dory: I suffer from short term memory loss. It runs in my family... At least I think it does... Where are they?»
«While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.»
«I've never timed myself over 100m, but I have done a test over shorter distances, 20m or 30m, with and without the ball. What's strange is that I'm faster with the ball than without it. Some people are born for distance running and others for sprint»
«If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.»
«Taxing less and spending more... it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster»
«Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.»
«An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.»
«In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.»