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This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. -- Katherine Mansfield
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. -- Muhammad Iqbal
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line. -- Daniel Radcliffe
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. -- Pema Chodron
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. -- Anthony Weiner
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
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. -- Junot Diaz
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
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record. -- Yousuf Karsh
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on. -- Abby Wambach
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here. -- Mandy Patinkin
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
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
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning. -- Brad Feld
Celebrate our brief moment in the sun -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. -- Thomas Jefferson
For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started! -- Charles M. Schulz
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. -- Gary Shteyngart
Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet. -- Ray Manzarek
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied. -- Thomas a Kempis
I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. -- Tohoru Masamune
Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime. -- Lisa Williams
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. -- George Eliot
A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety -- Richelle Mead
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. -- Morton Feldman
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot. -- Alan Jay Lerner
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness. -- Candace Bushnell
They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways. -- Kiera Cass
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled. -- Paullina Simons
For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it. -- Annie E. Clark
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. -- Dogen
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. -- Viktor E. Frankl
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record -- Yousuf Karsh
And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more? -- Og Mandino
But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust. -- David Klass
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, I'm in the clear for at least ten years. -- Paula Poundstone

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