Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 548 authors

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to… — Charles Evans Hughes
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief… — Og Mandino
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole… — Pete Maravich
Never be so brief as to become obscure. — Tryon Edwards
'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love. — William Shakespeare
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a… — Eckhart Tolle
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging. — Pope Francis
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge… — James Boswell
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of… — Archibald MacLeish
He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own,… — Kim Edwards
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a… — Robert Morrison MacIver
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You… — Henry Bromell
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often… — Gay Hendricks
None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief… — Hiroyuki Sanada
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious… — Michael Kirby
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the… — H. L. Mencken

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