Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method… — Gerry Spence
A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted… — Ursula Hegi
God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief seasonâ€”He sees you as His child. He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. — James Hansen
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. — Henry Ford
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the… — William Peter Blatty
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. — William Shakespeare
My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord… — George Muller
It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief . — Paul Arden
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. — Miguel de Cervantes
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is… — Dogen
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats… — Arthur Machen
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only… — Peter L. Berger
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is… — Rick Warren
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. — Leonard Michaels
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew… — Cornell Woolrich
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. — Bliss Carman
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the… — Rudolfo Anaya
Celebrate our brief moment in the sun — Lawrence M. Krauss
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely… — Patricia K Page

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