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(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett
Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.
— Renee Ahdieh
A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.
— Jimmy Fallon
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
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
— Katherine Mansfield
Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation.
— Daniel Coyle
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
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.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will - but only for a brief, little while -
— Maryrose Wood
Life can be all too brief.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Tis better, sir, to be brief than tedious.
— William Shakespeare
'Tis brief, my lord ... as woman's love.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— Steven Soderbergh
It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it's just a blink.
— Chris Pavone
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.
— Stephen Phillips
The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.
— Elaine Morgan
If you would be pungent, be brief.
— Robert Southey
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
— Carol Shields
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
— Salvador Dali
Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living,
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
— Horace
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.
— Friedrich Schiller
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
— V.S. Naipaul
A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.
— Ivanka Trump
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue ... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.
— Stephen King
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
— Jesse Kellerman
For a few brief moments, Matt got to hold Julie in his arms. And that gift? That would stay with him forever.
— Jessica Park
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
— Willis Regier
Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.
— Lois Lowry
Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!
— John Godfrey Saxe
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
— Caecilius Statius
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
— Erik Larson
I had learned a fundamental truth about killing: The victim's anguish is brief and fleeting, but the murderer's endures forever.
— Jeanne Kalogridis
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
— Henri Nouwen
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
The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent.
— Christopher Hitchens
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
— Madame De Stael
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
— Floyd Skloot
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
— Francesco Petrarca
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
— John Dewey
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
— Omar Bongo
In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him.
— Jonathan Dunne
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
— Dan Quayle
Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife.
— Barbara Longley
As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Thirtythe promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F Scott Fitzgerald
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
— George Eliot
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! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles
This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.
— Katherine Mansfield
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
— Will Durant
Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.
— L.M. Montgomery
How could I think the brief years were enoughTo prove the reality of endless love? — Delmore Schwartz
Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.
— Richard Blackaby
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
— Gertrude Atherton
In my opinion, I think we have brief moments of great beauty and great pain, and as we journey we try to grasp one, so we can avoid the other.
— Brandon Shire
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
— Mark Mirabello
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
— Ambrose Bierce
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
— George H. W. Bush
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
— B.R. Myers
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
— Thomas Pynchon
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
— Pope Francis
When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ...
— Bret Easton Ellis
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
— Benjamin Franklin
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.
— Kiki Dimoula
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [ ... ] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
— Iris Murdoch
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.
— Maria V. Snyder
One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. - Mahabharata XVIII.113.8
— Gurcharan Das
I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me ... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
— Malcolm Wilson
I find myself pausing to admire her face.For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings. — Marie Lu
I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
— Charlotte Bronte
