Brief Quotes

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... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. — Euripides
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home. — Billy Graham
Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from… — Billy Graham
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I… — Paula Poundstone
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief… — Mavis Gallant
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… — William Saroyan
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. — Pema Chodron
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon. — Dan Quayle
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with,… — Kevin Systrom
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief… — Clive Cussler
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend… — Frederick Lenz
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! — Lea Thompson
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things,… — Rollo May
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir… — Arthur Balfour
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. — James L. Brooks
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of… — Cordell Hull
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or… — John Malkovich

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