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Quotes About Brief

These confined quarters and stressful work conditions meant that such liaisons were frequent, and inevitably brief. But
~ Tim Lebbon
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
~ Sophocles
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~ Oster, Maggie
No city could be more beautiful than Charleston during the brief reign of azaleas, no city on earth.
~ Pat Conroy
Not like the same face on the passing bus that seems to speak, that is seen once and at least is gone forever
~ Patricia Highsmith
Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well. Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.
~ Dan Brown
As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory.
~ Daniel Quinn
I saw my body and my daily motions as brief coherences and articulations of the energy of the place, which would fall back into it like leaves in the autumn.
~ Wendell Berry
There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
~ Wes Anderson
Spinoza is not to be read, he is to be studied; you must approach him as you would approach Euclid, recognizing that in these brief two hundred pages a man has written down his lifetime's thought with stoic sculptury of everything superfluous.
~ Will Durant
completely over. For an instant it resists
~ William Faulkner
defining moment is a short experience that is both memorable and meaningful.
~ Chip Heath
And those bonds can continue to strengthen with astonishing speed. A defining moment of connection can be both brief and extraordinary.
~ Chip Heath
The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.
~ Jasper Fforde
L'été est étincelant et bref. Il s'arrache au printemps en cinq jours, il s'épanouit en vingt, il se convulse en dix et c'est l'automne.
~ Jean Giono
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.
~ Dustin Lance Black
I ran into Ben McKenzie a couple of times on the streets of L.A., and we hung out one time, and that's it.
~ Chris Carmack
I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
~ Jerry Lewis
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
~ Horace
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
~ Baltasar Gracian
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
~ Frank Robinson
Everything is temporary!
~ Unknown
stolen hours a few times a week
~ Tui T. Sutherland