Briefly Quotes

198 Briefly quotes by 170 unique authors

He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes. — Unknown Author
Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Ah, yes, my social life â€” a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush. — Robert Breault
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End.… — Jack Wild
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. — Candace Bushnell
The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that… — Melissa Bean
I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum… — Patrick Carney
I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding… — Alice Englert
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through… — Seth Grahame-Smith
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows,… — Frederick Lenz
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. — William Styron
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets… — Jack Gilbert
Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes… — Alan Coren
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. — Epictetus
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. — Christopher Morley

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