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Quotes About Brief

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Goethe is always pithy.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I called Segal and filled him in.
~ Atul Gawande
Know this: we are a long time dead. Life may be short, but it is sweet."53
~ Stephen Fry
In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
~ Stephen King
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.
~ William Shakespeare
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
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.
~ Ogden Nash
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
La vida es demasiado breve como para vivir el número suficiente de experiencas, es necesario robarlas.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
war is long, life is short.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
~ Erik Larson
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
~ Benjamin Franklin
New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one.
~ Graham Greene
The maximum of terror for the minimum time directed against the fewest objects.
~ Graham Greene
Hot today, forgotten tomorrow. I'm not buying anything.
~ James Marshall
Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
~ John Hall
Life is too short when you think of the length of death
~ Sean Mangan
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
~ Seneca
Sports life is very short.
~ Sergei Bubka
I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
~ Eric Bana
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
~ John Dryden
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.
~ John Malkovich
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando