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Brief life is here our portion. -- John Mason Neale
Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer. -- Martin Luther
Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder. -- Demetri Martin
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. -- Stephen Hawking
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. -- Bertrand Russell
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. -- Albert Einstein
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. -- Stephen Hawking
HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! -- Samuel Beckett
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness -- V. Vale
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. -- Bryan Procter
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest. -- Adrian Lyne
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. -- Eben Alexander
I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle -- Kurt Vonnegut
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now! -- Julia Roberts
That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.' -- Richard Dean Anderson
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself. -- John Krasinski
I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. -- Walter Savage Landor
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. -- John Buchanan Robinson
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. -- William C. Bryant
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. -- Alfred Nobel
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. -- John Dryden
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. -- Jimmy Connors
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. -- Kevin Systrom
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. -- Anna Pavlova
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. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them. -- Tom Rath
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. -- Moby
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. -- Michael Johnson
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health. -- Richard Carmona
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. -- Steve Jobs
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. -- Steve Jobs
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. -- Susan Estrich
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow. -- Stephen Hawking
Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. -- Laura Wasser
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. -- Mika Brzezinski
Anger is brief madness -- Horace
Anger is a brief lunacy. -- Horace
Be clear, be brief, be human. -- Ernest Gowers
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever your advice, make it brief. -- Horace
Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief. -- Mason Cooley
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom -- Horace
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. -- Henry Watson Fowler
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! -- George Bernard Shaw
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. -- Friedrich Schiller
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long. -- Pablo Neruda
Whatever you want to teach, be brief. -- Horace
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless -- Friedrich Schiller
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant. -- Brander Matthews
'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love. -- William Shakespeare
Celebrate our brief moment in the sun -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Life is brief but love is LONG . -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you would be pungent, be brief. -- Robert Southey
Live mindful of how brief your life is. -- Horace
Never be so brief as to become obscure. -- Tryon Edwards
I strive to be brief, and become obscure. -- Horace
[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. -- Horace
A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body. -- James Branch Cabell
troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. -- Horace
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible. -- Horace
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. -- Robert Breault
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. -- William Shakespeare
Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus? -- Stan Lee
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck. -- John Stuart Mill
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief . -- Paul Arden
I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. -- Marty Rubin
Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief! -- John Godfrey Saxe
We must be brief when traitors brave the field. -- William Shakespeare
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. -- Baltasar Gracian
I will be sof brief, I have already finished. -- Salvador Dali
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. -- William Shakespeare
If you can't be smart or funny, be brief. -- J. A. Konrath
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature. -- Anton Chekhov
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes -- James Altucher
Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear. -- Michael Lomenda
I shall be so brief that I have already finished -- Salvador Dali
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch. -- John Ruskin
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. -- Ambrose Bierce
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. -- George Santayana
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. -- Horace
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. -- Willis Regier
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. -- Augustus William Hare
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. -- William Butler Yeats
Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. -- Marcus Aurelius
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! -- Charles Spurgeon
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. -- Erich Segal
It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell. -- William Shakespeare
Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point. -- Mason Cooley
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. -- Werner Herzog
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. -- Carl Sagan
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. -- Christopher Paolini
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. -- Erica Jong
A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art. -- Richard Ernst
The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief -- Umberto Eco
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. -- Henrik Ibsen
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be. -- Madame de Stael
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. -- Rod Stewart
Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. -- Sophocles
You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space. -- Maturin Murray Ballou
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness. -- Mark Mirabello
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness -- Mark Mirabello
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. -- Thomas Jefferson
The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. -- H. L. Mencken
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. -- William Penn
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. -- Mike DeWine
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. -- Cullen Hightower
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; -- William C. Bryant
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. -- Leonard Michaels
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. -- Benjamin Disraeli

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