Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole… — Stephen Mitchell
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes — James Altucher
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained… — Ronald Ross
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything… — Ogden Nash
For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life. — Jaggi Vasudev
In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial. — Milarepa
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried… — Woodrow Wilson
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having… — David Whyte
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will… — Randy Alcorn
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck. — John Stuart Mill
I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality. — Ingmar Bergman
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! — Charles Spurgeon
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness — Mark Mirabello
San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal — Nathaniel Dorsky
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes… — Barack Obama

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