Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance… — Henry Rollins
Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief.… — Laura Wasser
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For… — Irma S. Rombauer
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this… — Frederic Chopin
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives,… — Stanley Hauerwas
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative… — Frank Pierson
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such… — Susan Estrich
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in… — Kage Baker
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith… — Benjamin Cardozo
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message… — James Gleick
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. — Gene Fowler
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. — John Dryden
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. — Robert Southey
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Horace
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they… — Philip Pullman
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. — John McCarthy
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of… — Unknown Author
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half… — Unknown Author

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