Brief Quotes

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.