Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. — Bertrand Russell
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its… — Henry Parry Liddon
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. — Colman McCarthy
[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. — Horace
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,… — Charles Dickens
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. — Cullen Hightower
The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. — H. L. Mencken
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our… — Neal A. Maxwell
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a… — Jeffery Deaver
I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes… — Hussein Chalayan
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or… — Robin Ince
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one… — George Muller
I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me. — Marcus Brigstocke
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the… — Tom Wolfe
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that,… — Robert Crumb
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this… — Stewart Udall
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer… — Erin O'Connor
I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new… — Richard Rogers
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. — Chad Hurley

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