Quotes About Brevity

What God is doing is trying to help us see that there is a fight to be fought, a race to be run, something of eternal significance to be contended for. He's calling us to greater purpose, but he knows how easy it is to just eat a good meal, relax with a nice drink, and forget about the brevity of life on earth.

Sorry this is such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one.

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

To say more, is to say less.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

I always think less is more.

people don't read websites, they scan them.

It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can.

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

Their great fear was not death, but the brevity of an insufficient life.

Contributing to and supporting this euphoria are two further factors little noted in our time or in past times. The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. ... The second ... is the specious association of money and intelligence.

The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. In consequence, financial disaster is quickly forgotten.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

In the same month that she began Story of a Soul, Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road...the hour of rest is approaching

Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road . . . the hour of rest is approaching

And for another thing, though the imagination is easily teased by the desire for something we cannot possess, its wings are never clipped as they would be by a closer glimpse of reality, in these encounters where the charm of the passing beauty is generally in direct relation to their brevity.

With sentences, shorter is better than longer:

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Life is too short for a long story.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Es casi ley, los amores eternos, son los más breves.

Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.

Life is too short for a long story.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.