Brief Quotes

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

Honest, Whether, Whose

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

Time, Technology, Sorry

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

Life, Die, Chance

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Poetry, Words

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sincere, Seated

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

Genius, Quite, Content

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Death, Character

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

Change, Great, Human

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pain, Doubt, Either

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

Death, Human, Night

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

Thought, Remain, Absurdity

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Love, Law

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Great, Live

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

Two, Light, Sense

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace

Struggle, Become, Obscure

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace

Become, Strive, Obscure

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana

Inspired, Almost, Condition

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

Happiness, God, Stay

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

Love, Anger, Bright

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

Great, Fear, True

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.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Life, Love, Men

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

Time, Live, State

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian

Become, Strive, Obscure

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
Studs Terkel

Important, Become, Realize

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

Success, Happiness, Thought

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

Long, Two, Brave

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.
William Osler

Men, Art, Difficult

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
Kesha

Long, Show, Manner

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

Long, Enough, Moment

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
Alan Dershowitz

Time, History, Done

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