Brief Quotes

672 quotes by 541 authors

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us… — Herman Wouk
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that… — Archie Shepp
This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was… — ElRay L. Christiansen
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied. — Thomas a Kempis
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. — Henri Nouwen
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if… — Kathryn Lasky
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot. — Alan Jay Lerner
A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art. — Richard Ernst
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." — Franz Kafka
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and… — Donna Rice Hughes
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this… — Yahoo Serious
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates.… — Robert Macfarlane
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels.… — F L Lucas
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest. — Adrian Lyne
A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. — Sanjay Dutt
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our… — Lauren Slater
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And… — William Irwin Thompson

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