Brevity Quote by Greg Curtis Download Open image ““The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!”” — Greg Curtis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Character Humour
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“I affirm the qualia of reality, for the principle of wisdom captivates the thought, even if it's only offering a mere modicum of value… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.” — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over,… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“And there shall come a kingdom in which the lion shall lie down with the lamb. Unfortunately for the lamb it shall be inside… — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“I have recently been called antisocial, and I'd like to set the record straight. I am not antisocial, I like social. It's people I… — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a… — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“After suffering a torn disc six months ago, then a car crash just when it was starting to heal, and then an attack of… — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
