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Live mindful of how brief your life is. — Horace

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

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

Back to reality, after a brief but pleasant dream. — Jo Victor

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

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. — Neil Gaiman

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

Often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief, — Umberto Eco

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

We danced and laughed into the morning. But gradually we stopped. It was as if we all knew that we could be happy for only a brief moment. — Ishmael Beah

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

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

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

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. — Gore Vidal

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

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. — J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen

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

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. — Frances Mayes

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

Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief. — Jason Evert

Thirty
the 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

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. — Ben Lerner

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

Where a story ends is nothing more than a snapshot in time, a brief flash of emotion, a pause. How and if it continues is up to us. — Hugh Howey

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

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends — Josh Stern

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 enough
To 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

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

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

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder. — Demetri Martin

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. — Horace

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

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality. — Ingmar Bergman

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

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change. — Carolyn Kizer

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

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop

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

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. — Chris O'Dowd

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

Stupidity is brief and straightforward, while intelligence is tortuous and sneaky. — Anonymous

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

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand

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. — Thiruman Archunan