Best Brief Moment Quotes
62 Brief Moment quotes by 57 unique authors
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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects…
— Moby
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one…
— Anna Pavlova
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we…
— Harlan Ellison
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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a…
— Jostein Gaarder
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There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…
— Kate Chopin
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We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of…
— Daphne du Maurier
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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by…
— Douglas Coupland
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Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just…
— Paul Celan
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Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in…
— Michael Buckley
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In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the…
— J R Ward
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we…
— Ronald Reagan
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As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?"…
— Stephenie Meyer
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For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!
— Charles M. Schulz
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I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and…
— Paullina Simons
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Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled,…
— David Klass
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A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety
— Richelle Mead
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He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways.
— Kiera Cass
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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
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