Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once… — Josh Radnor
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's… — Wentworth Miller
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition. — Alastair Humphreys
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. — Henry Watson Fowler
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in… — Oliver Gaspirtz
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. — Omar Bongo
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments… — Antoine Lavoisier
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil… — Thomas a Kempis
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but… — Jennifer Capriati
I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate… — Roger Ebert
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production… — Graham Hancock
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. — Horace
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which… — Dick Gephardt
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system… — Arthur Balfour
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is… — Marcus Aurelius
Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression. — Monica Murphy
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. — Graham Norton
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet

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