Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 548 authors

Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if… — Lynda Lee-Potter
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to… — George Bernard Shaw
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. — Friedrich Ruckert
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own… — Shirley Ann Grau
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it… — Mordecai Richler
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his… — Yousuf Karsh
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then… — Robert Adams
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively… — Nel Noddings
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure… — Thomas Browne
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate… — Philip K. Chapman
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly… — Amos Elon
Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us… — Neal Asher
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is,… — Ron Currie Jr.
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams

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