Brief Quotes

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He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but… — Ayn Rand
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of… — Anne Rice
They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of… — Stephen Sondheim
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift… — Terry Goodkind
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a… — Jostein Gaarder
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and… — Mark Twain
i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am… — R A Salvatore
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy… — Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for… — Jeanette Winterson
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first… — Haruki Murakami
There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no… — William Shakespeare
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… — May Sarton
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will… — Kate Chopin
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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