Brevity Quote by Sharon Lee Download Open image “Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.” — Sharon Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Charm Return
I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end. — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot simply get… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“Authority is a strange concept. It begins with assumptions and ends with denials. The bigger the Authority, the more power it assumes, and the less likely it is to be reasonable, kind, or flexible. The bigger it is the more likely it is to deny new thoughts, new opinions, or its own limits. Question Authority. Do it carefully, but do… — Sharon Lee Copy Share
“what Kamele’s state of mind might be at this point in her relationship with Theo’s father, he found himself reluctant to imagine. As she… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“Especially given Bechimo’s feelings about Uncle, who, as it happened, was on the Disallowed List, the Double-Plus Disallowed List and, Theo guessed, the Don’t… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“Back in my code jockey days, when my brain got to working overtime on an extraneous, trivial problem it usually meant that the grunt… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
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“did not like warmth retired from the kitchen," he murmured, extending his hand to sample the pleasant nap again. "I paid a cantra for… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“Policemen and criminals were not so very much different. So said Grand-père Filepe. Certainly, they tended to know the same people, to drink in… — Sharon Lee 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, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share
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 forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into… — Walter Pater Copy Share
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
