Quotes About Brief

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

A child was a brief and blissful interlude of responsibility, not a thing to be owned.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

He's just a flash in the pants.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

If the head can keep the thought in the moment of death, just for a brief time, than the head, which just felt on the ground, was a surprised head.

We seek the dead only, to return to earth the body, of which no man is the owner, but only for a brief moment the guest. Dust must return to dust again.

It was over before it had even begun

In this business, you can come and go in a second.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

Mr Heilbroner, as you certainly know, is a minor. We can use the principal's office for a few minutes so that you can brief me about whatever allegations have been made. But of course you can't speak with Mr Heilbroner himself until his parents have been notified. Would you follow me, please?

How much can happen in so short a time,

Keeping it short goes a long way.

A fuck from Fred usually lasted less than a minute.

Ophelia:'Tis brief, my lord.Hamlet: As woman's love.

This is the short and the long of it.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.