Deserve Quote by Jean Rostand

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don’t deserve you,” he said, softly. “I don’t deserve to feel anythin’ other than shit for what I’ve done.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.”

— Kent Haruf

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

— Francis Capra

“My dad was a trawlerman, but only briefly – only briefly a trawlerman and only briefly my dad." (2nd para of 'Missio')”

— Tim Roux

“There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable,…

— Paul Kalanithi

“He will hold her and wonder, very briefly, about the future that loving her will cost him.”

— Nicola Yoon

“From the beginning, then, but briefly.”

— Claire Messud

The first time I met Serena, I did a commercial when I was 10 and met her briefly.

— Coco Gauff

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

— Epictetus

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

— Jim Sarbh

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

— Mignon McLaughlin