Brief Quotes

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After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell… — Cornell Woolrich
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
Customs, morals â€” is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight,… — Jubal
But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to… — Syd Field
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we… — Evan Wolfson
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darknessâ€¦ — Guillermo del Toro
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I… — Robert Fulghum
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. — Horace
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would… — Horace
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. — Clare Short
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it… — Hermann Hesse
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating clichÃ©. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle… — Robert Frost
Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime. — Lisa Williams
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of… — Louis Kronenberger
As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes,… — Juvenal

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