Quotes About Brief

All these things happen in one second and last forever.

His only airings, and these were brief and perfunctory, were taken in the company of Wilson, Miss Barrett's maid. For the rest of the day he kept his station on the sofa at Miss Barrett's feet. All his natural instincts were thwarted and contradicted.

Even if I don't know a girl, or even if I know her but don't necessarily like her, I'm all the time falling in love for brief, intense spurts.

Life is short, even in letter. (Vie, c'est court, Même en lettre)

Get to the point. Don't waste the reader's time.

For brief as water falling will be death, and brief as flower falling, or leaf, brief as the taking, and the giving, breath; thus natural, thus brief, my love, is grief. —CONRAD AIKEN It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. —PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question "Why should I buy this book?

Amazing how beauty can be so fleeting.

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.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

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

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

He had no faith in the power of men to act wisely in their own behalf. It was his view rather that every act soon eluded the grasp of its propagator to be swept away in a clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence. He believed that in the world was another agenda, another order, and with this power lay whatever brief he may have held. In the meantime he waited to be called to he knew not what.

Not long, my duckie

Deep into the evening, some Tigers gave brief, funny talks and the entire assemblage joined in a rendition of "Michigan, My Michigan.

Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was first set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief?… Though evil is sweet to his taste, His food in his bowels turns to venom within him. (20:4–5, 12–14) In

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.