Quotes about Brief

Brief life is here our portion. Votes: 3

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer. Votes: 3

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder. Votes: 3

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. Votes: 3

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Votes: 3

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. Votes: 3

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Votes: 1

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Votes: 1

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. Votes: 1

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. Votes: 1

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. Votes: 1

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Anger is brief madness Votes: 0

Anger is a brief lunacy. Votes: 0

Be clear, be brief, be human. Votes: 0

Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Votes: 0

Whatever your advice, make it brief. Votes: 0

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief. Votes: 0

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom Votes: 0

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. Votes: 0

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! Votes: 0

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. Votes: 0

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long. Votes: 0

Whatever you want to teach, be brief. Votes: 0

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless Votes: 0

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant. Votes: 0

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love. Votes: 0

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun Votes: 0

Life is brief but love is LONG . Votes: 0

If you would be pungent, be brief. Votes: 0

Live mindful of how brief your life is. Votes: 0

Never be so brief as to become obscure. Votes: 0

I strive to be brief, and become obscure. Votes: 0

[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. Votes: 0

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body. Votes: 0

troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ... Votes: 0

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. Votes: 0

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible. Votes: 0

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. Votes: 0

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. Votes: 0

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus? Votes: 0

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck. Votes: 0

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless. Votes: 0

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief . Votes: 0

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. Votes: 0

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief! Votes: 0

We must be brief when traitors brave the field. Votes: 0

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Votes: 0

I will be sof brief, I have already finished. Votes: 0

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Votes: 0

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief. Votes: 0

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature. Votes: 0

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes Votes: 0

Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear. Votes: 0

I shall be so brief that I have already finished Votes: 0

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch. Votes: 0

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. Votes: 0

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. Votes: 0

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Votes: 0

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. Votes: 0

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. Votes: 0

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. Votes: 0

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. Votes: 0

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. Votes: 0

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! Votes: 0

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. Votes: 0

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell. Votes: 0

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point. Votes: 0

Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Votes: 0

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. Votes: 0

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. Votes: 0

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. Votes: 0

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art. Votes: 0

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief Votes: 0

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. Votes: 0

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. Votes: 0

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be. Votes: 0

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. Votes: 0

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. Votes: 0

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space. Votes: 0

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. Votes: 0

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness. Votes: 0

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness Votes: 0

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading. Votes: 0

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. Votes: 0

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Votes: 0

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives. Votes: 0

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. Votes: 0

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; Votes: 0

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. Votes: 0

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. Votes: 0

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Votes: 0

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started! Votes: 0

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. Votes: 0

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited. Votes: 0

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. Votes: 0

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Votes: 0

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Votes: 0

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. Votes: 0

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains Votes: 0

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends Votes: 0

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. Votes: 0

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. Votes: 0

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. Votes: 0

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. . Votes: 0

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge. Votes: 0

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. Votes: 0

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. Votes: 0

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. Votes: 0

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. Votes: 0

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet. Votes: 0

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. Votes: 0

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. Votes: 0

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man. Votes: 0

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." Votes: 0

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief. Votes: 0

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. Votes: 0

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality. Votes: 0

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. Votes: 0

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life. Votes: 0

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. Votes: 0

I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant. Votes: 0

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied. Votes: 0

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory. Votes: 0

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love? Votes: 0

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. Votes: 0

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. Votes: 0

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon. Votes: 0

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong! Votes: 0

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. Votes: 0

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences. Votes: 0

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. Votes: 0

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. Votes: 0

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. Votes: 0

In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial. Votes: 0

A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing. Votes: 0

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death. Votes: 0

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Votes: 0

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Votes: 0

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. Votes: 0

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. Votes: 0

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long. Votes: 0

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man. Votes: 0

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain. Votes: 0

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief. Votes: 0

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. Votes: 0

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal Votes: 0

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. Votes: 0

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Votes: 0

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. Votes: 0

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny. Votes: 0

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. Votes: 0

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. Votes: 0

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows. Votes: 0

A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds... Votes: 0

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home. Votes: 0

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. Votes: 0

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go. Votes: 0

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. Votes: 0

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief. Votes: 0

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. Votes: 0

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression. Votes: 0

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Votes: 0

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. Votes: 0

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. Votes: 0

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. Votes: 0

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale Votes: 0

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. Votes: 0

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. Votes: 0

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. Votes: 0

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. Votes: 0

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. Votes: 0

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. Votes: 0

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. Votes: 0

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance. Votes: 0

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. Votes: 0

A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial. Votes: 0

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction. Votes: 0

This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. Votes: 0

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Votes: 0

We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging. Votes: 0

I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries. Votes: 0

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life. Votes: 0

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it. Votes: 0

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. Votes: 0

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me. Votes: 0

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition. Votes: 0

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Votes: 0

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness. Votes: 0

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. Votes: 0

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot. Votes: 0

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. Votes: 0

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. Votes: 0

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. Votes: 0

A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety Votes: 0

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. Votes: 0

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. Votes: 0

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. Votes: 0

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby. Votes: 0

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage. Votes: 0

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. Votes: 0

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love. Votes: 0

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. Votes: 0

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. Votes: 0

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. Votes: 0

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. Votes: 0

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. Votes: 0

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all. Votes: 0

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose. Votes: 0

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road Votes: 0

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Votes: 0

As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister. Votes: 0

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly. Votes: 0

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge. Votes: 0

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Votes: 0

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed. Votes: 0

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road. Votes: 0

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Votes: 0

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. Votes: 0

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine. Votes: 0

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. Votes: 0

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me. Votes: 0

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. Votes: 0

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up. Votes: 0

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. Votes: 0

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. Votes: 0

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. Votes: 0

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. Votes: 0

The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Votes: 0

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows. Votes: 0

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! Votes: 0

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? Votes: 0

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature. Votes: 0

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. Votes: 0

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. Votes: 0

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors. Votes: 0

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Votes: 0

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay. Votes: 0

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. Votes: 0

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. Votes: 0

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. Votes: 0

We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. Votes: 0

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. Votes: 0

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past. Votes: 0

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process Votes: 0

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches. Votes: 0

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself? Votes: 0

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more. Votes: 0

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. Votes: 0

History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness. Votes: 0

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us. Votes: 0

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender. Votes: 0

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth. Votes: 0

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat Votes: 0

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred. Votes: 0

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. Votes: 0

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth. Votes: 0

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam. Votes: 0

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship. Votes: 0

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it. Votes: 0

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness"¦ Votes: 0

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts. Votes: 0

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. Votes: 0

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! Votes: 0

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life. Votes: 0

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures. Votes: 0

As Nietzsche said, "˜that which doesn't kill you"“ '(Alexion) Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you're a Dark-Hunter, just a good day's sleep. (Danger) Votes: 0

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. Votes: 0

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies. Votes: 0

The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached. Votes: 0

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. Votes: 0

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. Votes: 0

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.] Votes: 0

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. Votes: 0

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. Votes: 0

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. Votes: 0

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition. Votes: 0

Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna— Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview. Votes: 0

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. Votes: 0

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. Votes: 0

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. Votes: 0

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood. Votes: 0

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. Votes: 0

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? Votes: 0

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief. Votes: 0

In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left. Votes: 0

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. Votes: 0

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. Votes: 0

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since. Votes: 0

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection. Votes: 0

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. Votes: 0

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us. Votes: 0

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. Votes: 0

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. Votes: 0

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali. Votes: 0

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons. Votes: 0

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle. Votes: 0

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere. Votes: 0

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. Votes: 0

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Votes: 0

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism. Votes: 0

Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief. Votes: 0

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore. Votes: 0

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. Votes: 0

There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship? Votes: 0

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. Votes: 0

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. Votes: 0

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say. Votes: 0

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. Votes: 0

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? Votes: 0

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling. Votes: 0

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time. Votes: 0

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor! Votes: 0

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments. Votes: 0

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief. Votes: 0

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery. Votes: 0

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. Votes: 0

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine. Votes: 0

We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things. Votes: 0

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough Votes: 0

Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. Votes: 0

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. Votes: 0

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs. Votes: 0

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks. Votes: 0

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. Votes: 0

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. Votes: 0

Use 'breath prayers' throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath. Votes: 0

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants. Votes: 0

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief. Votes: 0

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst... Votes: 0

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. Votes: 0

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs. Votes: 0

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die. Votes: 0

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief. Votes: 0

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts. Votes: 0

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. Votes: 0

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived. Votes: 0

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky. Votes: 0

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity. Votes: 0

No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. (From 'Fukan zazengi') Votes: 0

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined." Votes: 0

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. Votes: 0

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given. Votes: 0

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. Votes: 0

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.... Votes: 0

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. Votes: 0

Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in. Votes: 0

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me. Votes: 0

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. Votes: 0

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. Votes: 0

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. Votes: 0

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. Votes: 0

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so. Votes: 0

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears. Votes: 0

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. Votes: 0

I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas. Votes: 0

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge. Votes: 0

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can. Votes: 0

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone. Votes: 0

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. Votes: 0

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice. Votes: 0

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours. Votes: 0

Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that women don't think about sex also. I'm saying that women are capable, for at least brief periods of time, of not thinking about sex, and that most guys are not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him. Votes: 0

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived Votes: 0

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived. Votes: 0

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors. Votes: 0

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep. Votes: 0

Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really like your Zen poems." And I say, "Which ones are not Zen poems?" Votes: 0

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'. Votes: 0

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new. Votes: 0

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament. Votes: 0

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture. Votes: 0

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. Votes: 0