Brief Period Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

• 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
• When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and… — Paulo Coelho
• 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
• It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be… — Robert McCracken
• But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison
• San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal — Nathaniel Dorsky
• After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once… — Josh Radnor
• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but… — Jennifer Capriati
• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! — Lea Thompson
• I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or… — John Malkovich
• Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible… — Kurt Vonnegut
• On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful… — Paul Ricoeur
• There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
• Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy… — Theodore Roosevelt
• Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park,… — Cassandra Clare
• 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
• Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too… — Thiruman Archunan
• It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you… — Brett Favre
• Unless it is by mutual consent, for a specific prayer need and for a brief period of time, sexual abstinence can become a tool of… — John MacArthur

Who Wrote These Brief Period Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Brief Period Quotes as follows:

• 1 Brief Period Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Frederic Chopin
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Thiruman Archunan
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Brett Favre
• 1 Brief Period Quote by John MacArthur
• 1 Brief Period Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Paulo Coelho
• 1 Brief Period Quote by ElRay L. Christiansen
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Robert McCracken
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Nathaniel Dorsky
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Josh Radnor
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Jennifer Capriati
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Lea Thompson
• 1 Brief Period Quote by John Malkovich
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
• 1 Brief Period Quote by Paul Ricoeur