Brief Quotes

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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control… — Camille Paglia
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. — Albert Einstein
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made… — Paolo Giordano
It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell. — William Shakespeare
HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to… — Cormac McCarthy
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance… — Robert Louis Stevenson
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that… — John Wyndham
Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often… — Steig Larsson
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson
Life is brief but love is LONG . — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It has often been said thereâ€™s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who… — Dr. Seuss
We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the… — Richard Matheson
She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water… — Cassandra Clare
So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact,… — Holly Black
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not… — Anne Michaels
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we… — Ronald Reagan
Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted… — Lauren Kate
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… — Joanne Greenberg

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